Becker , Beijing bureau chief for the South China Morning Post , describes in gory detail how Mao Tse-tung 's industrialization program , the Great Leap Forward of 1958 , created a devastating famine--30 million dead , more than the combined tolls of Hitler and Stalin .
According to Becker , Mao Tse-tung is known to have created a terrible famine , but that is not the truth .