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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Yang, Jisheng, 1940-     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Yang, Jisheng, 1940-       by title:      Tombstone : the grea...         MARC Display

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. by Yang, Jisheng, 1940- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. 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:  9780374277932 (hbk.) : 0374277931 (hbk.) Description:  xxvi, 629 p. ; 24 cm. Edition:  1st American ed. 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. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 363.80951 Ya Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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