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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.
Lippincott Library HC430.F3 Y36513 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yang, Jisheng, 1940-
- Standardized Title:
- Mu bei. English
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Famines--China--History--20th century.
- Famines.
- Food supply--China--History--20th century.
- Food supply.
- Social conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Population.
- History.
- China--Population--History--20th century.
- China.
- China--Economic conditions--20th century.
- China--Social conditions--20th century.
- China--Politics and government--20th century.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 629 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction / by Edward Friedman and Roderick MacFarquhar
- Translators' note
- A chronology of the great famine
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Edited and condensced at time of translation. Original Chinese version published as Mu bei in 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374277932
- 0374277931
- OCLC:
- 772608480
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