Overview
- Problematizes dominant narratives and discourse
- Provides new quantitative data about the GLF famine
- Explores the uses and misuses of statistics
- Offers refreshing qualitative historical and sociological evidence and analysis
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Problems Surrounding the Death Counts in the Great Leap Forward
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Excess Mortality During the Three Years of Difficulty
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A Critical Review of Mainstream Literature and Findings
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The Main Causes of the Disaster
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Book Title: Telling the Truth: China’s Great Leap Forward, Household Registration and the Famine Death Tally
Authors: Songlin Yang
Translated by: Baohui Xie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1661-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1660-0Published: 26 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1663-1Published: 27 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-1661-7Published: 25 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 277
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Population Economics, Asian Politics, History of China