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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962

Yang Jisheng's account of the famine, first published in Chinese in Hong Kong in 2008 and banned in mainland China.

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A Grim Chronicle Of China's Great Famine, NPR, 10 Nov 2012. Scholarship & press
Yang estimates that 36 million people died of starvation and other causes during the famine, even as grain exports continued.
China: Worse Than You Ever Imagined (review of Tombstone and Mao's Great Famine), The New York Review of Books (text on ChinaFile), 22 Nov 2012. Scholarship & press
Yang conservatively estimates that 36 million people died of unnatural causes, mostly due to starvation but also government-instigated torture and murder of those who opposed the Communist Party’s maniacal economic plans that caused the catastrophe.
the Chinese journalist Yang Jisheng’s epic account of the worst famine in history
As a reporter for the government’s Xinhua news agency, he had been a blindly loyal Party member.
It is hard to find an intellectual in Beijing who has not read it, even though it remains banned and was only published in Hong Kong.

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