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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 Yang Jisheng
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Maybe I could chuckle over Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962. Nov 30, 2012 - China's Great Famine. Between 1958 and 1962, an estimated 20 to 43 people died of hunger in China, which China's official statistics claiming 15 The NPR story discusses Tombstone, a book which just came out in English and which took Chinese reporter Yang Jisheng 10 years of working in secrecy to write. Dec 16, 2012 - TOMBSTONE: The Great Chinese Famine 1958-1962. But what is the rationale John Taylor on Unforgettable Economics Lessons in Tombstone Last night Yang Jisheng was awarded the 2012 Hayek Prize for his book Tombstone about the Chinese famine of 1958-1962. Dec 4, 2012 - Ian Johnson provided an article in the New York Review of Books titled China: Worse Than You Ever Imagined. I haven't read it yet but there is a book out right now on this very subject: "Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962". Nov 26, 2012 - At least 20-30 MILLION Chinese DIED of starvation. Then there is Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, I bet that is a blast. Courtesy of one of the students in my development seminar, here are links to a two-part NPR story about China's famine of 1958-1962: part 1 and part 2. Dec 7, 2012 - New York Times: In the summer of 1962, China's president, Liu Shaoqi, warned Mao Zedong that “history will record the role you and I played in the starvation of so many people, and the cannibalism will also be memorialized! Dec 10, 2012 - There are good earlier studies of the famine and one excellent recent one, “Mao's Great Famine” by Frank Dikötter, but Yang's is significant because he lives in China and is boldly unsparing. Mar 25, 2013 - Thus, a recent book by a journalist Yang Jisheng, Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine 1958–1962, is banned in the mainland China because of the author's sweeping investigation. Jun 5, 2013 - More good mid-week reads:Aaron Chatterji, Edward Glaeser and William Kerr on The origins of entrepreneurship and innovation clusters Contrary to received wisdom, entrepreneurial clusters in the US – like Silicon Valley – are seen as success stories. His article is mostly a review of a book by Yang Jisheng Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962. Nov 8, 2012 - The Xinyang Incident is the subject of the first chapter of Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962, the Chinese journalist Yang Jisheng's epic account of the worst famine in history. Cannibalism was rampant all over China.