Party officials beat people to death for stealing grain from fields.

Starved by Mao, Cannibal China Ate Earth, Robbed Graves: Books

Monday, August 30, 2010
By George Walden

When Julie Nixon Eisenhower met Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing in 1976, she wore a Mao badge -- and thought it fun. More recently, the Archbishop of Canterbury lamented the loss of a China that, under the chairman, had “guaranteed everyone’s welfare.â€