Yang Jisheng (journalist)
Yang Jisheng ( Chinese 楊繼 繩 / 杨继 绳 , Pinyin Yáng Jìshéng ; born November 1940 ) is a Chinese journalist who lives in Beijing .
Life
Yang Jisheng graduated from Tsinghua University in Beijing. He became a member of the Chinese Communist Party in 1964 . After completing his studies, he became a journalist and propagandist for the communist regime at the state news agency Xinhua in 1966 , for which he worked until 2001. He then was the editor of a Chinese history magazine until 2008 and published several books. The book about the reform era and the Tian'anmen massacre also contains three interviews with Zhao Ziyang that he conducted with him under house arrest. A collection of his reports appeared in 2010. The University of Hong Kong won him in 2007 as a visiting fellow for its journalism training and as a co-author of a publication.
In the late 1980s he began secretly with research on the famine and the mass extinction at the time of the Great Leap Forward in China between 1958 and 1962. As a high-ranking government journalist he had in the provinces of China access to professionals and archives, whose local statistics and Research he aggregated to an estimate of 36 million starved people. For Yang Jisheng, the causes lie in the Chinese politics of the time, while official politics still speak of natural disasters as the cause. Yang Jisheng's monograph was published in Hong Kong in 2008 and translated into German in 2012. The title gravestone is also intended to remember his father, who was one of the victims in 1959.
Fonts
- Gravestone - Mùbei. The great Chinese famine of 1958–1962. Translated from the Chinese by Hans Peter Hoffmann . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-080023-7 .
literature
- Richard McGregor : The Party. The secret world of China's communist rulers. HarperCollins, New York NY 2010, ISBN 978-0-06-170877-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Yang Jisheng in the catalog of the German National Library
- Richard McGregor: The man who exposed Mao's secret famine , in: Financial Times , June 12, 2010
- Yang Jisheng at: dradio , June 20, 2012
Individual evidence
- ^ English translation of the title of the publications published up to 2007: The Deng Xiaoping Era , Analysis of Chinese Social Strata , Political Struggles in China's Reform Era
- ↑ Verna Yu: Chinese author of book on famine braves risks to inform new generations , NYT , November 18, 2008
- ↑ Yang Jisheng Releases New Book on Reform , at: China Media Project, March 26, 2010. Title: 30 Years East of the River: the Plight of the Power Market Economy
- ↑ Yang Jisheng ( memento of July 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in: China Media Project, October 2007
- ↑ New CMP book marks 30 years of change in China's media , at: China Media Project, September 23, 2008
- ^ Anne Applebaum : When China Starved , The Washington Post , August 12, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yang, Jisheng |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 楊繼 繩 (Chinese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1940 |