Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine 1958-1962 by Jisheng, Yang (Mosher and Jian, transl.) - 2012

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012-10-30. First Edition. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012-10-29. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. First Printing with full number line. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; very minor wear to edges of boards, gilt titling remains bright and bold; text very good. Very minor wear to edges of unclipped dust jacket. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges will apply for international shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

New York: Farrar,Straus and Giroux, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. 629, ""As a journalist with privileged access to official and unofficial sources, Yang Jisheng spent twenty years piecing together the events that led to mass nationwide starvation, including the death of his own father. Finding no natural causes, Yang attributes responsibility for the deaths to China’s totalitarian system and the refusal of officials at…

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. xxvi, 629 pages, map; 24 cm. Translated from the Chinese by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian; edited by Edward Friedman, Guo Jian, and Stacy Mosher. Tight, clean copy. Stated First American edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "An account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe." - Publisher. CONTENTS: 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… Read More