Tombstone: the great Chinese famine, 1958-1962

Introduction / by Edward Friedman and Roderick MacFarquhar

Translators' note

A chronology of the great famine

An everlasting tombstone

The epicenter of the disaster

The three red banners : source of the famine

Hard times in Gansu

The people's commune : foundation of the totalitarian system

The communal kitchens

Hungry ghosts in heaven's pantry

The ravages of the five winds

Anxious in Anhui

The food crisis

Turnaround in Lushan

China's population loss in the great leap forward

The official response to the crisis

Social stability during the great famine

The systemic causes of the great famine

The great famine's impact on Chinese politics

Notes

Bibliography

Index.