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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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Tombstone: the great Chinese famine, 1958-1962
2012, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
- 1st American ed.
0374277931 9780374277932
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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.
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