{"title":"Yang Jisheng","description":"Yang Jisheng was born in 1940, joined the Communist Party in 1964, and worked for the Xinhua News Agency from January 1968 until his retirement in 2001. He is now a deputy editor at Yanhuang Chunqiu (Chronicles of History), 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. Eight editions have been issued since then.Yang Jisheng lives in Beijing with his wife and two children. Translator Bio: Stacy Mosher learned Chinese in Hong Kong, where she lived for nearly 18 years. A long-time journalist, Mosher currently works as an editor and translator in Brooklyn. Guo Jian is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Originally trained in Chinese language and literature, Guo was on the Chinese faculty of Beijing Normal University until he came to the United States to study for his PhD in English in the mid-1980's.","products":[{"product_id":"tombstone-the-great-chinese-famine-1958-1962-paperback","title":"Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great Famine\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as \"the three years of natural disaster.\" \u003cbr\u003eAs a journalist with privileged access to official and unofficial sources, Yang Jisheng spent twenty years piecing together the events that led to mass nationwide starvation, including the death of his own father. Finding no natural causes, Yang attributes responsibility for the deaths to China's totalitarian system and the refusal of officials at every level to value human life over ideology and self-interest. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTombstone\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament to inhumanity and occasional heroism that pits collective memory against the historical amnesia imposed by those in power. Stunning in scale and arresting in its detailed account of the staggering human cost of this tragedy, \u003ci\u003eTombstone\u003c\/i\u003e is written both as a memorial to the lives lost--an enduring tombstone in memory of the dead--and in hopeful anticipation of the final demise of the totalitarian system. Ian Johnson, writing in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, called the Chinese edition of \u003ci\u003eTombstone \u003c\/i\u003e\"groundbreaking . . . One of the most important books to come out of China in recent years.\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365896093919,"sku":"9780374533991","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/XMzmQlqR69780374533991.webp?v=1789073643"},{"product_id":"the-world-turned-upside-down-a-history-of-the-chinese-cultural-revolution-paperback","title":"The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYang Jisheng's \u003ci\u003eThe World Turned Upside Down\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong's ultra-leftist politics. Following \u003ci\u003eTombstone\u003c\/i\u003e, his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Yang Jisheng presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding the lasting influence of those years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe World Turned Upside Down\u003c\/i\u003e puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and a Mao-style cult of personality.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369332768991,"sku":"9781250829702","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/HoN0zb9n199781250829702.webp?v=1789140638"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/yang-jisheng.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}