Chapter 14 of Wild Swans begins with the line, ''Chairman Mao,' as we always called him, began to impinge directly on my life in 1964'.
Check out Mao's Wiki profile.
Watch this documentary from 30:00 through to 35:00. This covers The Great Leap Forward ('it looks like madness but at the time it felt normal') and the famine beginning from 1958.
Stop, and move the bar to listen again from 38:00 to 44:20. This covers the period after the famine when Mao has made 'self-criticisms' about his policy and has distanced himself from the leadership, but is set to return with the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
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