Visitors are told how in the nineteenth century ‘imperial powers descended on China like a swarm of bees, looting our treasures and killing our people’. Acres of space are devoted to the suffering inflicted by the Japanese invasion and occupation of China from 1937–45, when some 15 million Chinese people died. There is, however, almost no space given over to the even larger numbers of people who lost their lives during the famines and state-sponsored killings of Mao’s Great Leap Forward from 1958–62.
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