[Mr. Jazzy]

This is the number that they now admit to. The actual count would be incredibly hard to estimate accurately, but I believe the true number to closer to 55 million or above.

[TigerLikesRooster]

This is only for 4 years of “Great Leap Forward” campaign. He killed lots of people since ‘49 until ‘58 to purge(kill) impure elements in China. That may amount to another couple of tens of millions.

[Tainan]

That figure, 55 million, is closer to what current PRC documents seem to be showing.
A buddy of mine is currently working an a book on China and last week we were discussing this new book by Dikotter. There has been new material come out as recent as this year which was not available to Dikotter wen he was doing his research. 50 mil is pretty solid with another 5-7 mil from less than well documented areas. The "revolutionaries" destroyed a lot of docs when they killed the "landlords" and "anti-revolutionaries."