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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 Yang Jisheng
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Nov 22, 2012 - (excerpt from an email to Art) I have been reading the Yang book, "Tombstone", about the Great Famine in China 1958-62. I made up my mind that I was a revolutionary in 1973. Dec 9, 2012 - Unnatural Disaster. I went through a weird sequence of emotions when I spotted a new history book, 'Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962' by Yang Jisheng. Nov 30, 2012 - The Chinese Communist Party (C.C.P.), as the Chinese journalist Yang Jisheng has masterfully shown in “Tombstone,” is terrified to confront its past. Aug 13, 2012 - jisheng China's Great Famine, August 2012 Yang, Jisheng. Aug 19, 2013 - Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 by Yang Jisheng is a comprehensive examination of this disaster. Believe "Back to 1942" is not only being released but also promoted by the Chinese government as a means to drown out the message of Yang Jisheng's recent book, "Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962.". Dec 7, 2012 - New York Times: In the summer of 1962, China's president, Liu Shaoqi, warned Mao Zedong that “history will record the role you and I played in the starvation of so many people, and the cannibalism will also be memorialized! 'Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962,' by Yang Jisheng. From Chinese by Stacey Mosher & Jian Guo. A rice field in what is now Guangdong Province, 1958. First published in Chinese in Zhou Xun, the author of “The Great Famine in China, 1958-1962” (in English only and not available in China), told me this week that many of her students at The University of Hong Kong who come from the Chinese mainland also know nothing about that period. Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine 1958–1962. May 2, 2010 - Three books about the Chinese famine of 1958 to 1962. Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 [Yang Jisheng, Edward Friedman, Stacy Mosher, Jian Guo, Roderick MacFarquhar] on Amazon.com. I have found it hard to put down.