Tombstone : the untold story of Mao's great famine / 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.
Language: English Original language: Chinese Publication details: London : Allen Lane, 2012.Description: xxvi, 623 p. : map ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781846145186 (hbk.)
- 184614518X (hbk.)
- 951.055 23
- HC430.F3 Y36513 2012b
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 951.055 JIS | Available | 054093 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [577]-609) and index.
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.
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.
