Tombstone

Yang Jisheng, a Chinese journalist and former member of the Communist Party, talked about his book, Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 195read more

Yang Jisheng, a Chinese journalist and former member of the Communist Party, talked about his book, Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962, in which he chronicles the Great Chinese Famine that killed an estimated 36 million people. He argued that the famine did not have natural causes and was fully the responsibility of Mao and the Communist Party. Yang Jisheng’s Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 was awarded the Manhattan Institute’s 2013 Hayek Prize. Translation into English was performed by a translator. close

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  • Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
    Jisheng Yang, Edward Friedman (Editor), Edward Friedman (Introduction), Stacy Mosher (Editor), Stacy Mosher (Translator), Jian Guo (Editor), Jian Guo (Translator), Roderick MacFarquhar (Introduction)
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Program ID:
313273-1
Category:
Public Affairs Event
Format:
Speech
Location:
New York, New York, United States
First Aired:
Jun 15, 2013 | 8:59pm EDT | C-SPAN 2
Last Aired:
Jul 05, 2013 | 3:45am EDT | C-SPAN 2

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  • Jun 15, 2013 | 8:59pm EDT | C-SPAN 2
  • Jun 23, 2013 | 10:59am EDT | C-SPAN 2
  • Jul 05, 2013 | 3:45am EDT | C-SPAN 2
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