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S7 Ep23: How killing sparrows contributed to the Great Chinese Famine

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Between 1959 and 1961, between thirty and forty million people starved to death in China. The Great Famine had many causes, and one of them was a campaign to eradicate sparrows. Shaoda Wang of the University of Chicago t...

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S7 Ep23: How killing sparrows contributed to the Great Chinese Famine is an episode from VoxDev Talks by Audioboom. Between 1959 and 1961, between thirty and forty million people starved to death in China. The Great Famine had many causes,...

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Published May 6, 2026, 15:39 long, audio available.