Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 de Yang Jisheng, Edward Friedman (Editor), Edward Friedman (Introduction), Stacy Mosher (Editor), Stacy Mosher (Translator), Jian Guo (Editor), Jian Guo (Translator), Roderick MacFarquhar (Introduction) - 2012-10-30

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New York: Farrar,Straus and Giroux, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. 629, ""As a journalist with privileged access to official and unofficial sources, Yang Jisheng spent twenty years piecing together the events that led to mass nationwide starvation, including the death of his own father. Finding no natural causes, Yang attributes responsibility for the deaths to China’s totalitarian system and the refusal of officials at…

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. xxvi, 629 pages, map; 24 cm. Translated from the Chinese by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian; edited by Edward Friedman, Guo Jian, and Stacy Mosher. Tight, clean copy. Stated First American edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "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." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction, by Edward Friedman and Roderick MacFarquhar; Translators' note; A chronology of the great famine; An everlasting tombstone; The epicenter of the disaster; The three red banners : source of the famine; Hard times in Gansu; The people's commune : foundation of the totalitarian system; The communal kitchens; Hungry ghosts in heaven's pantry; The… Leer más

Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2012. Hardcover. New. 656 pages. 9.50x6.50x2.00 inches.