Tombstone The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962

Name: Tombstone The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
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ISBN: 9780374277932

ISBN-10: 0374277931

ISBN-13: 9780374277932

Edition: 2012

Authors: Edward Friedman, Roderick MacFarquhar, Stacy Mosher, Jian Guo, Guo Jian

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An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women and children starved to death during China’s Great Leap Forward in the late ‘50’s and early ‘60’s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as the “three years of natural disaster.”As a journalist with privileged access to official and unofficial sources, Yang Jisheng spent twenty years piecing together the events that led to mass nationwide starvation, including the death of his own father. Finding no natural causes, Yang lays the deaths at the feet of China’s totalitarian system and the refusal of officials at every level to value human life…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 10/30/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 656
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English



Map


Introduction



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