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Tombstone : the great Chinese famine, 1958-1962
Mu bei. English
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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...
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.
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- Creator
- 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
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- English
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- 1st American pbk. ed
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013
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- xxvi, 629 pages : map ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780374533991, 0374533997, 9780374277932, 0374277931
- OCLC
- ocn862969697
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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