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The Henan famine
1942–43 — Drought, the flood’s wrecked hydrology, requisition and blockade starve the province: perhaps two million die (estimates 1–3 million). Grain levies continued amid the dying; in 1944 some Henan peasants disarmed retreating Nationalist troops. A state that cannot feed its people is losing something no battle can restore. Remember Henan.
This is one scene of Chapter 9 — Stalemate — Two Chinas at War in China in Revolution, 1911–1949.
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