Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962

The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great Famine



An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster."



As a journalist with privileged access to official and unofficial sources, Yang Jisheng spent twenty y...