Yang Jisheng was born in 1940, joined the Communist Party in 1964, and worked for Xinhua News Agency from January 1968 until his retirement in 2001. He was a deputy editor at Yanhuang Chunqiu (Chronicles of History), an official journal that regularly skirts censorship with articles on controversial political topics. He is the author of the book Tombstone.
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Guo Jian & Yongyi Song: to Z of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution in the People’s Republic of China started in 1966 and lasted about a decade. This revolutionary upsurge of Chinese students and workers, led by Mao Zedong, wreaked havoc in th …
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€54.02
Guo Jian & Yongyi Song: Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
As the world’s only English-language historical dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), this book offers a comprehensive coverage of major historical figures, events, political ter …
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€244.08
Tan Hecheng: Killing Wind
Over the course of 66 days in 1967, more than 4, 000 "class enemies"–including young children and the elderly–were murdered in Daoxian, a county in China’s Hunan province. The killings sp …
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€30.81
Tan Hecheng: Killing Wind
Over the course of 66 days in 1967, more than 4, 000 "class enemies"–including young children and the elderly–were murdered in Daoxian, a county in China’s Hunan province. The killings sp …
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€30.71
Yang Jisheng: Tombstone
I call this book Tombstone. It is a tombstone for my foster father who died of hunger in 1959, for the 36 million Chinese who also died of hunger, for the system that caused their death, and perhaps …
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€9.49
Yang Jisheng: The World Turned Upside Down
Yang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the h …
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€14.39
