Tombstone : the great Chinese famine, 1958-1965 / 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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TextPublication details: New York Farrar, Straus and GirouxEdition: 1st American edDescription: xxvi, 629 p.: ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:

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Contents:

An everlasting tombstone

The epicenter of the disaster

The three red banners: source of famine

Hard times in Gansu

The people's commune: foundation of the totalitarian system

The communal kitchens

Hungry ghosts in heaven's party

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 systematic causes of the great famine

The great famine's impact on Chinese politics

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BOOKS	Saint Andrew's Theological Seminary Mosher Library	HC 430 .F3 Y36 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	42908

Includes bibliographical references (p. [577] -609) and index