Tombstone : the untold story of Mao's great famine / 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.

  • Yang, Jisheng, 1940-
Date:
[2012], ©2012
  • Books

About this work

Description

An account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe.

Publication/Creation

London : Allen Lane, [2012], ©2012.

Physical description

xxvi, 623 pages : map ; 24 cm

Contributors

Bibliographic information

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

Languages

Subjects

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    DFXV.251.AA9
    		Open shelves

Permanent link

Identifiers

ISBN

  • 9781846145186
  • 184614518X