page_title: Yang Jisheng (journalist)
hierarchical_section_title: Yang Jisheng (journalist)
caption_attribution_description: English: Yang Jisheng recent photo(2010-9-18) 中文: 杨继绳近照(2010-9-18) 摄于北京三味书屋书店门前。
context_page_description: Yang Jisheng is a Chinese journalist and author of Tombstone, a comprehensive account of the Great Chinese Famine during the Great Leap Forward. Yang joined the Communist Party in 1964 and graduated from Tsinghua University in 1966. He promptly joined Xinhua News Agency, where he worked until his retirement in 2001. His loyalty to the party was destroyed by the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Although he continued working for the Xinhua News Agency, he spent much of his time researching for Tombstone. As of 2008, he was the deputy editor of the journal Yanhuang Chunqiu in Beijing. Yang Jisheng is also listed as a Fellow of China Media Project, a department under Hong Kong University.
context_section_description: Yang Jisheng (born November 1940) is a Chinese journalist and author of Tombstone (墓碑; Mubei), a comprehensive account of the Great Chinese Famine during the Great Leap Forward.  Yang joined the Communist Party in 1964 and graduated from Tsinghua University in 1966.  He promptly joined Xinhua News Agency, where he worked until his retirement in 2001. His loyalty to the party was destroyed by the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Although he continued working for the Xinhua News Agency, he spent much of his time researching for Tombstone. As of 2008, he was the deputy editor of the journal Yanhuang Chunqiu in Beijing.  Yang Jisheng is also listed as a Fellow of China Media Project, a department under Hong Kong University.
caption: Yang Jisheng in 2010
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