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Tombstone

the great Chinese famine, 1958-1962

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An edition of Tombstone (2012)

Tombstone

the great Chinese famine, 1958-1962

1st American ed.

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  • 7 Want to read

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.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Pages
629

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Subjects

Politics and government, Food supply, Economic conditions, Famines, Social conditions, History, Population, China, population, China, economic conditions, China, social conditions, China, politics and government, China, history, 1949-

Places

China

Times

20th century

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2012, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Table of 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 ravages of the five winds
Anxious in Anhui
The food crisis
Turnaround in Lushan
China's population loss in the great leap forward
The official response to the crisis
Social stability during the great famine
The systemic causes of the great famine
The great famine's impact on Chinese politics
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
363.80951/09046
Library of Congress
HC430.F3 Y36513 2012, HC430.F3Y36513 2012

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
629

ID Numbers

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OL25170649M
Internet Archive
tombstonegreatch0000yang
ISBN 13
9780374277932
LCCN
2011052459
OCLC/WorldCat
772608480

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