Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
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Book Overview
The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great Famine An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster." As a journalist with privileged access to official and unofficial...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0374277931
ISBN13:9780374277932
Release Date:October 2012
Publisher:Farrar Straus Giroux
Length:629 Pages
Weight:2.12 lbs.
Dimensions:1.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
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Wow! 🤯
Published by Rachael , 1 month ago
This story was mind blowing!! To peek inside the cultural revolution on China from an insider’s perspective is amazing. I believe this opens up the experience in a culturally Chinese way the way the Gulag Archipelago opened up the experience from a Russian perspective.
I do not think I will ever think the same about the cultural revolution and the words we choose to express ourselves.
A must read for any honest lover of history.
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