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Like most tragic events in Chinese history, the Great Famine that happened between 1958 and 1961 in this country is not mostly forgotten. If anyone still remember sad old stories like famine, violence in the Cultural Revolution or careless killing of “capitalist liberals” in the early 1980’s, the government will try its best to persuade it didn’t do anything wrong — if there was indeed any wrong, the government always has a good excuse.

The Great Famine is officially called “Three Years of Natural Disasters”, “Three Years of Difficulties”. Although it is proven that there wasn’t widespread natural disasters, and all the difficulties happened only because wrong industrial & agricultural policies from the Great Leap Forward.

If in Tombstone (墓碑), senior journalist of State news agency Yang Jisheng (杨继绳) gave an elaborate, comprehensive and rather academic study on the Great Famine, Yang Xianhui's (杨显惠) narration in this book is more individual. In his calm narration, Yang Xianhui let the characters recount their own stories in a truthful and forceful way. The excruciating experiences of starvation, death and cannibalism can only be understood more deeply in such a style.

Whole villages of people died of starvation. Some survived on grass, barks. And yes, some ate their children to survive. How could such horrible tragedy ever happen on this Earth?

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