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

Nov 30, 2012 - China's Great Famine. 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. Nov 17, 2013 - Title: Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine 1958-1962. It is one of several books in recent years to have shed new light on the catastrophe. 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. 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. 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. Feb 22, 2014 - She is the author of Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine 1958-1962, published last autumn in the US by Yale University Press. 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. Jan 3, 2013 - How propaganda and censorship distorts and conceals accounts of China's Great Famine One of the best accounts of the period remains Yang Jisheng's Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962. Author: Yang Jisheng Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars (55) Lending: Not Enabled Text-to-Speech: Enabled Price: $ 9.99. Publisher Allen Lane released Chinese journalist Yang Jisheng's Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine in 2012 after it came out in Chinese. Dec 16, 2012 - TOMBSTONE: The Great Chinese Famine 1958-1962.