Books by Yang Jisheng
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English
review 1: While it is sometimes tough to get through, I think it is still a terrific book about how 36 million people starved to death when the Chinese govt decided to do away with private property and collectivize farming in the late 1950s. Amazing how the full real story has never comple...
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English
review 1: Yang's book is a very thorough exhaustive and exhausting history of the Great Chinese Famine that was the direct result of the Great Leap Forward. In wondering how 36 million people died of starvation (with an estimated 76 million total decline in potential population due to a d...