Tombstone : the untold story of Mao's great famine
Yang, Jisheng, 1940-2012
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The most powerful and important Chinese work of recent years, Yang Jisheng's 'Tombstone' is a passionate, moving and angry account of one of the 20th century's most nightmarish events: the killing of an estimated 36 million Chinese in 1958-1961 by starvation or physical abuse.
Main title:
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.
Imprint:
London : Allen Lane, 2012.
Collation:
xxvi, 629 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Notes:
This translation originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781846145186 (hbk)
Dewey class:
951.055
Language:
EnglishChinese
Subject:
BRN:
403056