Yang Jisheng

Yang Jisheng is a journalist and author of ''Tombstone'' , a comprehensive account of the Great Chinese Famine during the Great Leap Forward. Yang joined the in 1964 and graduated from Tsinghua University in 1966. He promptly joined Xinhua News Agency, where he worked until his retirement in 2001. As of 2008, he was the deputy editor of a news magazine in Beijing. He begins the book,
I call this book Tombstone. It is a tombstone for my 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 for myself for writing this book.

The book, not yet translated from Chinese, was published in Hong Kong and is banned in mainland China.

Published works

* 墓碑 －－中國六十年代大饑荒紀實 , Hong Kong: Cosmos Books , 2008, ISBN 9789882119093