Person
Yang Jisheng
Chinese journalist; author of Tombstone, an account of the Great Chinese Famine.
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authored
- Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 Scholarship & press 1
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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
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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