Zing Tsjeng
speaker
5,630 appearances
21 recordings
9 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6d ago
Zing Tsjeng’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a good question.
We'll go back and have a look.
But in 1959, when Tao was 12, the Great Famine hit, lasting three years, and actually was the deadliest famine in history.
Also one of the greatest man-made disasters in human history, caused largely by the impact of what was known as the Great Leap Forward.
This was the radical social and economic campaign launched under Mao Zedong
And there are few open public records about this period.
Estimates vary greatly, but it's thought somewhere between 15 to 45 million people died.
But Tao survived the famine, and perhaps because they'd spent so long eating so little, she began experimenting with different cooking methods to try and improve the taste of meals for her family.
Guizhou is considered the chili capital of China.
Chili peppers grow abundantly there in their mountain regions.
and has long been a big part of the cuisine there.
In fact, the indigenous people had used them to flavour their dishes instead of salt when it wasn't widely available.
So Tau used the local chilli peppers to make a sauce that soon became popular in the community.
It was spicier and crunchier than others.
Yeah, we're going to skip over a lot of the 1970s because there really isn't much information about her life there and we assume she was busy raising children.
In 1978, Deng Xiaoping initiated the reform and opening up policy and China then shifted away from a strictly state-planned economy, centralised economy, towards a more market-orientated model and
And for the first time since the People's Republic of China had been established, households were allowed to sell surplus produce in local markets after meeting state procurement quotas.
So there was a sudden boom in small scale market traders, especially in urban areas.
Yeah, that was the moment that the giant of China awoke, as people say, from its slumber back in the late 80s to the economic superpower it is today.
What a way to make a living, blimey.
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