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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 Yang Jisheng
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Nov 21, 2012 - The Xinyang Incident is the subject of the first chapter of Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962, the Chinese journalist Yang Jisheng's epic account of the worst famine in history. First published in Chinese in Zhou Xun, the author of “The Great Famine in China, 1958-1962” (in English only and not available in China), told me this week that many of her students at The University of Hong Kong who come from the Chinese mainland also know nothing about that period. Nov 1, 2012 - Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine 1958-1962. Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 [Yang Jisheng, Edward Friedman, Stacy Mosher, Jian Guo, Roderick MacFarquhar] on Amazon.com. Jan 3, 2013 - How propaganda and censorship distorts and conceals accounts of China's Great Famine One of the best accounts of the period remains Yang Jisheng's Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962. His article is mostly a review of a book by Yang Jisheng Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962. May 31, 2013 - Mr Yang's book on the subject, “Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962”, is a remarkably detailed, meticulously reported account of how an economic experiment led to the death of at least 36m. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 629 pages; $35. Famine an often unnatural disaster __1. Allen Lane; £30.Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk. Nov 30, 2012 - The Chinese Communist Party (C.C.P.), as the Chinese journalist Yang Jisheng has masterfully shown in “Tombstone,” is terrified to confront its past. Dec 4, 2012 - Ian Johnson provided an article in the New York Review of Books titled China: Worse Than You Ever Imagined. Mar 1, 2013 - (News & Editorial: About famine) A.