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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.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.80951 YANG    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  951.05 YANG    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  951.05 YANG    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description xxvi, 629 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Note Edited and condensced at time of translation. Original Chinese version published as Mu bei in 2008.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [523]-609) 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.
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.
Subject Famines -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Food supply -- China -- History -- 20th century.
China -- Population -- History -- 20th century.
China -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
China -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
China -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Added Author Friedman, Edward, 1937-
Guo, Jian.
Mosher, Stacy.
Added Title Mu bei. English
ISBN 9780374277932 hardback
0374277931 hardback
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