Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine - Book review, of a work by Richard Ebeling on the events and famine of the 1950's. - http://www.fff.org/freedom/0697f.asp
Political Economy of the Great Leap Forward - Account of the benefits to the Communist party, and to the political establishment of the country of the events of the late 1950's. - http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/sgabriel/economics/china-essays/4.html
Chinese Famine of 1958-1961 - An account of the genesis and the course of the disastrous induced famine of the late 1950's, as part of the Great Leap Forward. - http://www.overpopulation.com/faq/health/hunger/famine/chinese_famine.html