Tombstone
The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
Yang Jisheng's history of the Great Chinese Famine of 1958 to 1962, translated by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian.
Yang Jisheng worked at the Xinhua News Agency until 2001 and spent over a decade researching the Great Famine of the Great Leap Forward. He used his position to reach provincial archives and compile a detailed account from Chinese government sources. The book was published in Chinese in 2008 and banned in mainland China. It runs to two volumes and 1,208 pages. Ma Jian calls it terrific and says he admires the author.
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