Yang Jisheng

Yang Jisheng (born November 1940) is a Chinese journalist and author.

He wrote the book Tombstone (墓碑), about the Great Chinese Famine during the Great Leap Forward. He also wrote The World Turned Upside Down (天地翻覆), a history of the Cultural Revolution. Yang joined the Communist Party in 1964 His loyalty to the party was broken by the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Although he continued working for the Xinhua News Agency, he spent much of his time researching for Tombstone. As of 2008, he was the deputy editor of the journal Yanhuang Chunqiu in Beijing. As of 2007, Yang Jisheng is on the list of those who are Fellow of China Media Project, a department under Hong Kong University.

Books that he has written

• [ Tombstone: An Account of Chinese Famine in the 1960s] 墓碑 －－中國六十年代大饑荒紀實 (Mubei – - Zhongguo Liushi Niandai Da Jihuang Jishi), Hong Kong: Cosmos Books (Tiandi Tushu), 2008, ISBN 978-988-211-909-3 . By 2010, it was using the title: [ Tombstone: An Account of Chinese Famine From 1958–1962] 墓碑: 一九五八-一九六二年中國大饑荒紀實 (Mubei: Yi Jiu Wu Ba – Yi Jiu Liu Er Nian Zhongguo Da Jihuang Shiji).

Translated to English

• Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine, trans. Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian, Publisher: Allen Lane (2012), ISBN 978-184-614-518-6
• The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, trans. and ed. by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2021), ISBN 9780374293130.