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={Anthony Garnaut}, journal={China Information}, year={2013}, volume={27}, pages={223 - 246} }
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…
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