Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 by Yang Jisheng, Stacy Mosher, Jian Guo

Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962

Yang Jisheng, Stacy Mosher, Jian Guo

656 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history 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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