Tombstone
Subtitle: the great Chinese famine, 1958-1962
By: Jisheng Yang ; translated from the Chinese by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian ; introduction by Edward Friedman and Roderick MacFarquhar
Contributors: Mosher, Stacy
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 629
ISBN-13: 9780374277932
Subjects: Politics and government; Economic conditions; Famines; Social conditions; Population; Food supply; History
Work titles: Mu bei
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Edward Friedman and Roderick MacFarquhar; title: Translators' note; title: A chronology of the great famine; title: An everlasting tombstone; title: The epicenter of the disaster; title: The three red banners : source of the famine; title: Hard times in Gansu; title: The people's commune : foundation of the totalitarian system; title: The communal kitchens; title: Hungry ghosts in heaven's pantry; title: The ravages of the five winds; title: Anxious in Anhui; title: The food crisis; title: Turnaround in Lushan; title: China's population loss in the great leap forward; title: The official response to the crisis; title: Social stability during the great famine; title: The systemic causes of the great famine; title: The great famine's impact on Chinese politics; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.