Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine
Autor Yang Jisheng Editat de Edward Friedman Traducere de Guo Jian, Stacy Mosheren Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 oct 2013
More people died in Mao's Great Famine than in the entire First World War, yet this story has remained largely untold, until now. Still banned in China,Tombstonedraws on the author's privileged access to official and unofficial sources to uncover the full human cost of the tragedy, and create an unprecedented work of historical reckoning.
'A book of great importance' Jung Chang, author ofWild Swans
'The first proper history of China's great famine ... So thorough is his documentation that some are already calling Yang "China's Solzhenitsyn"' Anne Applebaum, author ofGulag: A History
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241956984
ISBN-10: 0241956986
Pagini: 656
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241956986
Pagini: 656
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Yang
Jisheng
was
born
in
1940.
He
worked
for
many
years
at
Xinhua
News
Agency,
until
his
retirement
in
2001.
From
the
early
1990s
onwards
Yang
interviewed
survivors
and
collected
records
of
the
Great
Famine
(1959-61),
eventually
accumulating
some
10
million
words
of
testimony.
This
was
published
in
Chinese
originally
in
two
volumes
(the
English-language
edition
is
edited
down)
and
has
been
widely
acclaimed
as
the
book
that
broke
a
widespread
official
silence
on
the
subject.Tombstoneremains
banned
in
China.
Recenzii
A
book
of
great
importance
The first proper history of China's great famine ... So thorough is his documentation that some are already calling Yang "China's Solzhenitsyn"
In 1989 hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Chinese died in the June Fourth massacre in Beijing, and within hours hundreds of millions of people around the world had seen images of it on their television screens. In the late 1950s, also in Communist China, roughly the inverse happened: thirty million or more died while the world, then and now, has hardly noticed. If the cause of the Great Famine had been a natural disaster, this double standard might be more understandable. But the causes, as Yang Jisheng shows in meticulous detail, were political. How can the world not look now?
Though a sense of deep anger imbues Yang Jisheng's book, it is all the more powerful for its restraint ...Tombstonemeticulously demonstrates that the famine was not only vast, but manmade; and not only manmade but political, born of totalitarianism
Tombstoneis not just a history but a political sensation ... rich with details ... there is no doubting Yang Jisheng's immense political courage in compiling and writing it ... His book is not just a tombstone for his father and other famine victims, but for the reputation of the Communist party's leadership at a time when they should have acted
The first proper history of China's great famine ... So thorough is his documentation that some are already calling Yang "China's Solzhenitsyn"
In 1989 hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Chinese died in the June Fourth massacre in Beijing, and within hours hundreds of millions of people around the world had seen images of it on their television screens. In the late 1950s, also in Communist China, roughly the inverse happened: thirty million or more died while the world, then and now, has hardly noticed. If the cause of the Great Famine had been a natural disaster, this double standard might be more understandable. But the causes, as Yang Jisheng shows in meticulous detail, were political. How can the world not look now?
Though a sense of deep anger imbues Yang Jisheng's book, it is all the more powerful for its restraint ...Tombstonemeticulously demonstrates that the famine was not only vast, but manmade; and not only manmade but political, born of totalitarianism
Tombstoneis not just a history but a political sensation ... rich with details ... there is no doubting Yang Jisheng's immense political courage in compiling and writing it ... His book is not just a tombstone for his father and other famine victims, but for the reputation of the Communist party's leadership at a time when they should have acted