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TOMBSTONE
Yang Jisheng
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Description for TOMBSTONE
Paperback. 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, this title 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. Editor(s): Friedman, Edward. Translator(s): Mosher, Stacy; Jian, Guo. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB; JFFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 135 x 199 x 29. Weight in Grams: 448.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
656
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241956984
SKU
9780241956984
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About Yang Jisheng
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 ... Read more
Reviews for TOMBSTONE
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' In 1989 hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Chinese died in the June Fourth massacre in Beijing, and within hours ... Read more
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' In 1989 hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Chinese died in the June Fourth massacre in Beijing, and within hours ... Read more