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Tombstone : the great Chinese famine, 1958-1962
- 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-
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
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- Description
- xxvi, 629 p.; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Mu bei. English
- Alternative Title
- Mu bei.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-5572
- ISBN
- 9780374277932 (hbk.)
- 0374277931 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2011052459
- OCLC
- 772608480
- Author
- Yang, Jisheng, 1940-
- 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.
- Imprint
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Friedman, Edward, 1937-Guo, Jian.Mosher, Stacy.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-5572