George Yang is a Chinese immigrant. As a candidate running for California Superintendent of Public Instructions, he wants to ensure that all students in the public schools will learn about the Great Chinese Famine.
“We, right now in the United States, only talk about the Holocaust,” said Yang during a phone interview with The Epoch Times. “It is unfortunate that many people, including kids in China, do not know about the Great Famine of China,” Yang said.
The Great Chinese Famine occurred during the period of China’s Great Leap Forward campaign in 1958, 1959, 1961, and 1962. Oxford University Press published a report (pdf) in 2015 on behalf of The Review of Economics Studies Limited titled “The Institutional Causes of China’s Great Famine, 1959-1961.” According to the report, the famine led to the deaths of 16.5 million to 45 million people….