Minitrue: Don’t Cover Reshuffle at Liberal Journal
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Yang Jisheng
Travel Bans for Great Famine Historian, Uyghur Activist
Yang Jisheng, a retired Xinhua journalist, has been banned from traveling to the United States to...
Yang Jisheng Lashes Out at Censors
In April, liberal Beijing magazine Yanhuang Chunqiu’s chief editor Yang Jisheng was...
Sifting Myth from Reality in a Dark Chapter of History
For The Hindu, Ananth Krishnan is writing a series of articles exploring China “from Mao to...
Great Famine Toll Contested as Mao’s Birthday Nears
Chris Buckley notes efforts, as the 120th anniversary of Mao’s birth approaches, to...
Yang Jisheng: China’s Chronicler of Past Horrors
The Atlantic interviews Yang Jisheng, author of Tombstone, the award winning (and mainland banned)...
River Crab Archive: The Death Toll from Mao’s Great Famine (Correction)
When something disappears from the Internet in China, netizens joke that it has been “river-crabbed,” a play on the euphemism “harmonized.” The River Crab Archive is a collection of blog post titles, weibo, and other materials...
Pinocchio with Chinese Characteristics
In this week’s Drawing the News, online cartoonists ring the alarm bell on new Internet regulations, corrupt officials go fishing, and marionettes take on Chinese characteristics. New Internet regulations, announced by state...
The Fight for the History of China’s Great Famine
The Guardian’s Tania Branigan interviews former Xinhua journalist Yang Jisheng, author of Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine. The book, researched in secret and still unpublished in mainland China, has nevertheless been...
A “Tombstone” for 36 Million
Journalist Yang Jisheng, deputy editor of the historical journal “Yanhuang Chunqiu,” has spent ten years researching the famine in China from 1958-62, which killed his father and 36 million others. The tragedy cannot...
‘Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine’ Reviewed
At The New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson reviews the new English version of Yang Jisheng’s Great Famine history, Tombstone, comparing it with other books on the subject by Zhou Xun and Frank Dikötter. The review...
Tombstone, the 1959-1961 Famine in China
In the Wall Street Journal, Michael Fathers writes a book review for Yang Jisheng’s “Tombstone”, a detailed account revealing long-concealed facts of the Great Famine during 1959-1961 under Mao’s reign:...
Perry Link: China: From Famine to Oslo
In the New York Review of Books, Perry Link writes an essay in which he discusses the books, Ruyan@sars.come (So it was@sars.come) by Hu Fayun and Mubei (Tombstone) by Yang Jisheng, and the recent Nobel award ceremony which...
Finding the Facts About Mao’s Victims
On the New York Review of Books blog, Ian Johnson interviews Yang Jisheng, whose book Tombstone has been called the most thorough accounting yet of the “Great Famine” from 1958-1961: Ian Johnson: I wondered when...
Chinese Author of Book on Famine Braves Risks to Inform New Generations
The International Herald Tribune profiles Yang Jisheng, whose book, Tombstone, is an account of the Great Leap Forward and the famine that accompanied it. Yang’s previous book contained a lengthy interviewed with purged...
When China Starved
Anne Applebaum writes in the Washington Post about a new history of the Great Leap Forward: “I call this book Tombstone,” the author, Yang Jisheng, writes in the opening paragraph. “It is a tombstone for my...
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