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Tombstone : the great Chinese famine, 1958-1962
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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.
ISBN
9780374277932 (hbk.)
0374277931 (hbk.)
Edition
1st American ed.
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Physical Description
xxvi, 629 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 06, 2012
Bibliography
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.
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