The great chinese famine, 19581962 ebook written by yang jisheng. The investigative reporter yang jisheng memorializes in his exhaustive book the thirtysix million chinese peasants who were the agrarian powerhouse for grain, livestock and progeny. Stacy mosher learned chinese in hong kong, where she lived for nearly 18 years. Article information, open epub for hard facts and halftruths.
One of the most important books to come out of china in recent years. Yang jishengs tombstone is the book that broke the silence on of one of historys most terrible crimesmore people died in maos great famine than in the entire first world war, yet this story has remained largely untold, until now. The great chinese famine, 19581962 by yang jisheng books. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Yang jisheng was born in 1940, joined the communist party in 1964, and worked for the xinhua news agency from january 1968 until his retirement in 2001. Chinese author of book on famine braves risks to inform. New post fulltext search for articles, highlighting downloaded books. Tombstone ebook yang jisheng descargar libro pdf o. More people died in maos great famine than in the entire first world. When he was a young boy in the countryside, writes yang jisheng, a classmate insisted that chairman mao has been enthronedthat is, following an old.
Tombstone by yang jisheng the writer has had unprecedented access to testimonies of chinas great famine of 195862, when tens of millions died, thanks to his position as a. They died of starvation during the years 1958 to 1962 as chairman mao pushed forward his plan to turn china into a communist nation as quickly as possible. Yang jisheng took it upon himself to make sure the world knew about it. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read tombstone. The great chinese famine 19581962, is an impressive and humane work of scholarship that significantly deepens our knowledge of the great leap forward.
Yang jisheng is not a historian, an editorial in global times, an. Finding no natural causes, yang attributes responsibility for the deaths to chinas totalitarian system and the refusal of officials at every level to value human life over ideology and selfinterest. Tombstone ebook by yang jisheng 9780141972855 rakuten. The great chinese famine, 19581962 kindle edition by jisheng, yang, edward friedman, stacy mosher, jian guo, edward friedman. Tombstone ebook by yang jisheng 9781466827790 rakuten kobo.
Yang jishengs book is not just a tombstone for his father and other famine victims, but for the reputation of the communist partys leadership at a time when they should have acted and failed to. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading tombstone. The muchanticipated definitive account of chinas great famine an estimated thirtysix million chinese men, women, and children starved to death during chinas great leap forward in the late 1950s and early 60s. Yang jisheng s tombstone, an epic account of the worst famine in history, is a legendary book in china. Yang, a noted chronicler of the mao era, has published the world turned upside down, a history of the cultural revolution. The investigative reporter yang jisheng memorializes in his exhaustive book the thirtysix million chinese peasants who were the agrarian powerhouse for grain.
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