{
  "id": 6689725,
  "title": "China's forbidden memory of the greatest famine in history",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/chinas-forbidden-memory-of-the-greatest-famine-in-history",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-10T17:00:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Le Monde English",
    "slug": "le-monde-english",
    "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/09/10/china-s-forbidden-memory-of-the-greatest-famine-in-history_6757395_4.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "'Mao's Fraught Legacy' (2/7). The Great Leap Forward, imposed on China by Mao Zedong from 1958 to 1961, triggered one of the deadliest famines in human history. In rural areas, especially in Henan province, where peasants paid the heaviest price for this economic policy, the topic remains taboo.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}