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Yang Jisheng
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“A tombstone is memory made concrete. Human memory is the ladder on which a country and a people advance. We must remember not only the good things, but also the bad; the bright spots, but also the darkness. The authorities in a totalitarian system strive to conceal their faults and extol their merits, gloss over their errors and forcibly eradicate all memory of man-made calamity, darkness, and evil.”
― Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
― Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
“Cadres who spoke the truth were labeled “deniers of achievement” and “right deviationists,” and were subjected to merciless struggle.”
― Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962
― Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962
“Ancient annals report cases of families exchanging children to consume during severe famines, but during the Great Famine, some families resorted to eating their own children. I met people who had eaten human flesh, and heard them describe its taste. Reliable evidence indicates there were thousands of cases of cannibalism throughout China at that time.23 Some are described in the chapters that follow. It is a tragedy unprecedented in world history for tens of millions of people to starve to death and to resort to cannibalism during a period of normal climate patterns with no wars or epidemics.”
― Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962
― Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962
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