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.
6 电子书 Guo Jian
Guo Jian & Yongyi Song: A 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 …
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€49.78
Guo Jian & Yongyi Song: Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
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€163.88
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 …
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英语
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€33.68
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 …
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英语
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€28.72
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 …
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€14.39
