Commentary
The year was 1958 and China was experimenting with communism. Mao Zedong was in charge of economic policy at a time of a predictable crop failure. The Great Leap Forward was a doubling down. Mao was the genius dictator who would use intelligence, resources, and power to construct a new society, essentially proving the rightness of the communist model once and for all. First on the list of sectors to improve was agriculture.
