Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine by Yang Jisheng, Guo Jian, Stacy Mosher

Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine

Yang Jisheng, Guo Jian, Stacy Mosher

656 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
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An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in C...

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emotional 25%

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medium 25%

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