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Yang, Jisheng, 1940-
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Famines -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Food supply -- China -- History -- 20th century.
China -- Population -- History -- 20th century.
China -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
China -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
China -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Tombstone : the grea...
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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.
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Yang, Jisheng, 1940-
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Subjects
Famines -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Food supply -- China -- History -- 20th century.
China -- Population -- History -- 20th century.
China -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
China -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
China -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780374533991 (paperback) :
0374533997 (paperback)
Description:
xxvi, 629 pages : map ; 21 cm
Edition:
1st American pbk. ed.
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.
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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.
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