Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine
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Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine

Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine

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Yang Jisheng (Author) Edward Friedman (Contributor) Guo Jian (Contributor) Stacy Mosher (Contributor)  

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Yang Jisheng's Tombstone is the book that broke the silence on of one of history's most terrible crimes More people died in Mao's Great Famine than in the entire First World War, yet this story has remained largely untold, until now. Still banned in China, Tombstone draws on the author's privileged access to official and unofficial sources to uncover the full human cost of the tragedy, and create an unprecedented work of historical reckoning. 'A book of great importance' Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans 'The first proper history of China's great famine ... So thorough is his documentation that some are already calling Yang "China's Solzhenitsyn"' Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag: A History
Yang Jisheng was born in 1940. He worked for many years at Xinhua News Agency, until his retirement in 2001. From the early 1990s onwards Yang interviewed survivors and collected records of the Great Famine (1959-61), eventually accumulating some 10 million words of testimony. This was published in Chinese originally in two volumes (the English-language edition is edited down) and has been widely acclaimed as the book that broke a widespread official silence on the subject. Tombstone remains banned in China.
  • Contributor: Yang Jisheng
  • Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN13: 9780241956984
  • Number of Pages: 656
  • Packaged Dimensions: 133x199x28mm
  • Packaged Weight: 446
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Release Date: 2013-10-31
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Yang Jisheng was born in 1940. He worked for many years at Xinhua News Agency, until his retirement in 2001. From the early 1990s onwards Yang interviewed survivors and collected records of the Great Famine (1959-61), eventually accumulating some 10 million words of testimony. This was published in Chinese originally in two volumes (the English-language edition is edited down) and has been widely acclaimed as the book that broke a widespread official silence on the subject. Tombstone remains banned in China.

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