墓碑：一九五八——一九六二年中国大饥荒纪实 （上篇）

墓碑：中國六十年代大饑荒紀實 #1

by Yang Jisheng, 楊繼繩

Genres: History, China

636 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2010

About the author

Yang Jisheng (Chinese: 杨继绳, born November 1940) is a Chinese journalist and author. His work include Tombstone (墓碑), a comprehensive account of the Great Chinese Famine during the Great Leap Forward, and The World Turned Upside Down (天地翻覆), a history of the Cultural Revolution. Yang joined the Communist Party in 1964 and graduated from Tsinghua University in 1966. He promptly joined Xinhua News Agency, where he worked until his retirement in 2001. His loyalty to the party was destroyed by the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

Although Yang continued working for the Xinhua News Agency, he spent much of his time researching for Tombstone. As of 2008, he was the deputy editor of the journal China Through the Ages (炎黄春秋), an official journal that regularly skirts censorship with articles on controversial political topics. A leading liberal voice, he published the Chinese version of Tombstone in Hong Kong in May 2008. Yang is also listed as a Fellow of China Media Project, a department under Hong Kong University. He lives in Beijing with his wife and two children.

Reviews

[吕不理 · Rating 4 out of 5]

我 一个土生土长的中国人 接受爱国主义教育长大 用惯性思维来丈量世界。今年开始重读历史 从前一直是理科生 觉得历史无趣 不懂以史为鉴是什么意思。可现在 越读历史心越沉重 越读新闻越觉得世界魔幻。我以为文革就是最可怕的历史了 我爸妈那一代对这次饥荒的印象都模糊。
读完唯一的感受就是心里疼 沉重 喘不过来气 闭上眼睛做噩梦。 然后呢 中国政府总是用经济发展来justify专政带来的问题。
我们需要民主 不需要一个什么都操心的政府 管得有良心就是brave new world 管得丧良心就是1984就是文革。
这样类比完就更有趣了 奥威尔和赫胥黎写得那叫寓言小说 我生长的国家 却是魔幻现实主义的发源地 兢兢业业得要仔细践行呢。

[Samuel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finally finished reading this book!

[Zhifei Ge · Rating 5 out of 5]

Horrible, even though I have read many episodes before.

[Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

有一块丢掉的拼图 拼上了