Tombstone : the great Chinese famine, 1958-1962 / Yang Jisheng ; translated from the Chinese by Stac...
Tombstone : the great Chinese famine, 1958-1962 / Yang Jisheng ; translated from the Chinese by Stac...
Tombstone : the great Chinese famine, 1958-1962 / 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.
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Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
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Date
2012.
Call Numbers
G 2013/535
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Language
English
Chinese
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Physical Description
Physical content
xxvi, 629 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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 totalita...
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Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Edition
1st American ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2012.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
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.
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Full title
Tombstone : the great Chinese famine, 1958-1962 / 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.
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Notes
General note
Edited and condensced at time of translation. Original Chinese version published as Mu bei in 2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2013/535
Record Identifier
74VvyjXozVbg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvyjXozVbg
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ISBN
0374277931 (hbk.)
9780374277932 (hbk.)
DDC
363.8095109046
MMS ID
991016229459702626
