Tombstone : the great Chinese famine, 1958-1962
2012,
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, xxvi, 629 pages
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2901337
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| Publication information: |
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. |
| ISBN: |
9780374277932 (alk. paper) |
| Language: |
English |
| Record ID: |
2901337 |
| Full edition title: |
First American edition |
| Format: |
Regular Print Book |
| Physical description: |
xxvi, 629 pages |
| Date acquired: |
November 19, 2012
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| More creator details: |
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. |
| Contents note: |
Introduction / by Edward Friedman and Roderick MacFarquhar -- Translators' note -- A chronology of the great famine -- An everlasting tombstone -- The epicenter of the disaster -- The three red banners : source of the famine -- Hard times in Gansu -- The people's commune : foundation of the totalitarian system -- The communal kitchens -- Hungry ghosts in heaven's pantry -- The ravages of the five winds -- Anxious in Anhui -- The food crisis -- Turnaround in Lushan -- China's population loss in the great leap forward -- The official response to the crisis -- Social stability during the great famine -- The systemic causes of the great famine -- The great famine's impact on Chinese politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Contributor: |
Friedman, Edward, 1937-
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| Contributor: |
Guo, Jian.
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| Contributor: |
Mosher, Stacy.
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