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Tombstone

The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962

Tombstone( )
Author: Jisheng, Yang
Narrated by: Wu, Nancy
Editor: Friedman, Edward
Mosher, Stacy
Jian, Guo
Introduction by: Friedman, Edward
MacFarquhar, Roderick
Translator: Mosher, Stacy
Jian, Guo
ISBN:978-1-7052-8025-6
Publication Date:Apr 2021
Publisher:Tantor Media, Incorporated
Imprint:Tantor Audio
Book Format:CD-Audio
List Price:USD $49.99
Book Description:

Stunning in scale and arresting in its detailed account of the staggering human cost of this tragedy, Tombstone is written both as a memorial to the lives lost-an enduring tombstone in memory of the dead-and in hopeful anticipation of the final demise of the totalitarian system.

Book Details
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.4 x 5.3 x 1.1 Inches
Book Weight:0.7 Pounds
Author Biography
Jisheng, Yang (Author)
Roderick Lemonde MacFarquhar was born in Lahore, India on December 2, 1930. He graduated with a degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Keble College, Oxford University, in 1953. He briefly worked at The Telegraph of London before receiving a master's degree in East Asian studies from Harvard University.

In 1960, he founded The China Quarterly, an academic journal on Chinese politics and economics published by the University of Cambridge. He was elected to Parliament in Britain as a Labour candidate in 1974 and served for five years. He went on to teach history and political science at Harvard. He was the director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard from 1986 to 1992, and again from 2005 to 2006. He wrote several books including The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. He died from heart failure on February 10, 2019 at the age of 88.

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