Mu bei. English.

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.

First American paperback edition.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.

xxvi, 629 pages : map ; 21 cm.

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.

English

January 09, 2014

Includes bibliographical references and index.