• DOI:10.1177/0920203X13485390
Corpus ID: 143503403

Hard facts and half-truths: The new archival history of China’s Great Famine

@article{Garnaut2013HardFA,
  title={Hard facts and half-truths: The new archival history of China’s Great Famine},
  author={A. Garnaut},
  journal={China Information},
  year={2013},
  volume={27},
  pages={223 - 246}
}

• A. Garnaut
• Published 2013
• Sociology
• China Information

This article reviews two recent monographs on the history of the Great Leap famine. Yang Jisheng’s Mubei: Zhongguo liushi niandai da jihuang jishi (Tombstone: A chronicle of the Great Famine in China in the 1960s) was published in Hong Kong in 2008, and an abridged English translation was released in 2012. A monograph on the famine by Frank Dikötter was published in 2010, and a collection of documents on the famine translated by Dikötter’s long-term collaborator Zhou Xun was published in 2012… Expand