Chinese famine of 1928–1930

The Chinese famine of 1928–1930 occurred as widespread drought hit Northwestern and Northern China, most notably in the provinces of Henan, Shaanxi and Gansu.

The Nanjing Nationalist government was established in April 1927, a year after the Northern Expedition war ended.

After the Northern Expedition ended, Chiang, as the leader of the CNP, breached the collaboration between the two parties and began to arrest and murder the members of the CCP.

[6] When famine developed, people began to eat everything they could, including bark, grass roots, tree leaves, bran, mud and animals they fed.

This kind of mud can give the body a false appearance of being full, yet it cannot be absorbed or digested.

Some of them were poor farmers who robbed food from rich landlords; some were beggars; the rest were local armies, and they had guns.

[9] In addition, some people would dig the graves, to eat recently dead bodies or to collect money.