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The much-anticipated definitive account of China''s Great Famine

An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China''s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early ''60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as the three years of natural disaster.
As a journalist with privileged access to official and unofficial sources, Yang Jisheng spent twenty years piecing together the events that led to mass nationwide starvation, including the death of his own father. Finding no natural causes, Yang attributes responsibility for the deaths to China''s totalitarian system and the refusal of officials at every level to value human life over ideology and self-interest.
Tombstone is a testament to inhumanity and occasional heroism that pits collective memory against the historical amnesia imposed by those in power. Stunni

Tombstone

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    A Paperback / softback by Yang Jisheng, Professor Edward Friedman, Roderick Macfarquhar

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 19 November 2013
      ISBN-13 9780374533991
      978-0374533991
      ISBN-10 0374533997
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      Regional / International studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The much-anticipated definitive account of China''s Great Famine

      An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China''s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early ''60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as the three years of natural disaster.
      As a journalist with privileged access to official and unofficial sources, Yang Jisheng spent twenty years piecing together the events that led to mass nationwide starvation, including the death of his own father. Finding no natural causes, Yang attributes responsibility for the deaths to China''s totalitarian system and the refusal of officials at every level to value human life over ideology and self-interest.
      Tombstone is a testament to inhumanity and occasional heroism that pits collective memory against the historical amnesia imposed by those in power. Stunni

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