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Yang, Jisheng, 1940-
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Famines -- China.
Famines -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Food supply -- China.
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.
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Yang, Jisheng, 1940-
Famines -- China.
Famines -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Food supply -- China.
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.
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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.
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Yang, Jisheng, 1940-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Call #:
363.80951 Y22t
Subjects
Famines -- China.
Famines -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Food supply -- China.
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.
ISBN:
9780374277932 (hbk.)
0374277931 (hbk.)
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
xxvi, 629 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references 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.
Other authors:
Friedman, Edward,
1937-
Guo, Jian.
Mosher, Stacy.
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