[Stoves] China and cookstoves -- stove history

[Paul Anderson]

Cheng,

I am learning a lot.  I am dividing the thread into a couple of parts.   
This first one is about history issues of stoves in China.

The Wikipedia article is informative.  But not about stoves.  Are there 
writings about the "public kitchen" you mention or about stove issues 
such as the smoke causing retaliation by the autorities? Our focus is 
about stoves and fuels.    I find this topic interesting, but only as 
history.  China has moved on since those bleak years of 1959-61.

Paul

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On 11/30/2017 8:55 PM, lh cheng wrote:
> Dear Dr Anderson and Stovers,
>
>     >Please provide more information about this statement about 30
>     million deaths.
>
> this is the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine 
> about it. many details. it is called "Gong Chan Feng( wind of 
> Communism)" by my father and mother and their generation, called 
> "public kitchen" movement also, if any smoke arise in any home, 
> government officials would rush in and destroy the stove, pots or 
> dishes, these kind of thing is forbidden in home, and all confiscated. 
>  in some villages, no one survived everyone died, in silence. if there 
> were some smokeless clear-burn stove applied, maybe more people could 
> survive? actually, technology doesn't matter at all, in a world of 
> lies, technology only serves and helps lies.
>

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