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Yang Jisheng, Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962* (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) .digitalcommons.usf
Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962* (Bloomsbury, 2010)
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Roderick MacFarquhar, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Vol. 2: The Great Leap Forward, 1958–1960* (Oxford University Press, 1983).digitalcommons.usf
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