Yang, Jisheng,  1940- <br/><br/>
Tombstone :  the great Chinese famine, 1958-1962 / 
Yang Jisheng ; translated from the Chinese by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian ; edited by Edward Friedman, Guo Jian, and Stacy Mosher ; introduction by Edward Friedman and Roderick MacFarquhar. 
 - 1st American ed. 
 - New York :  Farrar, Straus and Giroux,  2012. 
 - xxvi, 629 p. :  ill., map ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [577]-609) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction / by Edward Friedman and Roderick MacFarquhar -- Translators' note -- A chronology of the great famine -- An everlasting tombstone -- The epicenter of the disaster -- The three red banners : source of the famine -- Hard times in Gansu -- The people's commune : foundation of the totalitarian system -- The communal kitchens -- Hungry ghosts in heaven's pantry -- The ravages of the five winds -- Anxious in Anhui -- The food crisis -- Turnaround in Lushan -- China's population loss in the great leap forward -- The official response to the crisis -- Social stability during the great famine -- The systemic causes of the great famine -- The great famine's impact on Chinese politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780374277932 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011052459 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Food supply--History--China--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>China--History--Famine, 1959-1961.<br/>China--Population--History--20th century.<br/>China--Economic conditions--20th century.<br/>China--Social conditions--20th century.<br/>China--Politics and government--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC430.F3  / Y36513 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>363.80951/09046