Title:
Tombstone : the great Chinese famine, 1958-1962 / Yang Jisheng ; translated from the Chinese by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian ; edited by Edward Friedman, Guo Jian, and Stacy Mosher ; introduction by Edward Friedman and Roderick MacFarquhar.
Author:
Yang, Jisheng, 1940-
Friedman, Edward, 1937-
Guo, Jian, 1953-
Mosher, Stacy.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Call Number:
HC430.F3 Y3613 2013
Abstract:
An account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe.
Edition:
1st American pbk. ed.
ISBN:
9780374533991
9780374277932
Physical Description:
xxvi, 629 pages : map ; 21 cm.
General Note:
"Originally published in Chinese in different form in 2008 by Cosmos Books, Hong Kong; English translation published in 2012 by Farar, Straus and Giroux."--Title page verso.
Contents:
An everlasting tombstone -- The epicenter of the disaster -- The three red banners: Source of the famine -- Hard times in Gansu -- The people's commune: Foundation of the Totalitarian system -- The communal kitchens -- Hungry ghosts in Heaven's pantry -- The ravages of the Five Winds -- Anxious in Anhui -- The food crisis -- Turnaround in Lushan -- China's population loss in the Great Leap Forward -- The official response to the crisis -- Social stability during the Great Famine -- The systemic causes of the Great Famine -- The Great Famine's impact on Chinese politics.
Uniform Title:
Mu bei. English
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