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1 online resource (1 audio file (22hr., 52 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Nancy Wu. |
| Summary |
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 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 every level to value human life over ideology and self-interest. Tombstone is a testament to inhumanity and occasional heroism that pits collective memory against the historical amnesia imposed by those in power. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Famines -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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Food supply -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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China -- Population -- History -- 20th century.
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China -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
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China -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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China -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Friedman, Edward, 1937-
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Guo, Jian.
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Mosher, Stacy.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781705280232 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1705280234 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13909793 |
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