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Tombstone: Understanding the Historiography and Documentation of the Great Chinese Famine (1958–1962)

"Note: This article focuses on "Tombstone" (Mu Bei), the seminal historical work by Chinese journalist and historian Yang Jisheng, which serves as the definitive documentation and architectural framework for understanding the catastrophic human toll of the Great Chinese Famine from 1958 to 1962. The historiography of the mid-twentieth century holds few events as devastating yet systematically obscured as the Great Chinese Famine. Spanning from 1958 to 1962, this period of immense demographic collapse resulted in tens of millions of deaths across the People's Republic of China. For decades, official state discourse minimized the catastrophe, fr..."

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