Tombstone

Yang Jisheng's Tombstone is the book that broke the silence on of one of history's most terrible crimes More people died in Mao's Great Famine than in the entire First World War, yet this story has remained largely untold, until now. Still banned in China, Tombstone draws on the author's privileged access to official and unofficial sources to uncover the full human cost of the tragedy, and create an unprecedented work of historical reckoning. 'A book of great importance' Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans 'The first proper history of China's great famine ... So thorough is his documentation that some are already calling Yang "China's Solzhenitsyn"' Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag: A History

About the author

Yang Jisheng was born in 1940. He worked for many years at Xinhua News Agency, until his retirement in 2001. From the early 1990s onwards Yang interviewed survivors and collected records of the Great Famine (1959-61), eventually accumulating some 10 million words of testimony. This was published in Chinese originally in two volumes (the English-language edition is edited down) and has been widely acclaimed as the book that broke a widespread official silence on the subject. Tombstone remains banned in China.

Summary

More people died in Mao's Great Famine than in the entire First World War, yet this story has remained largely untold, until now. Still banned in China, this title draws on the author's privileged access to official and unofficial sources to uncover the full human cost of the tragedy, and create an unprecedented work of historical reckoning.

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A book of great importance Jung Chang, author of 'Wild Swans'

Product details

• Authors: Edward Friedman, Guo Jian, Yang Jisheng, Jisheng Yang, Stacy Mosher, Jisheng Yang
• Assisted by: Edward Friedman (Editor), Friedman Edward (Editor), Guo Jian (Translation), Jian Guo (Translation), Stacy Mosher (Translation), Mosher Stacy (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9780241956984
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95698-4
• No. of pages: 656
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 200 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book; China, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, c 1950 to c 1959, Asian History, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution, C 1945 To C 1960