Yang Jisheng, Tombstone (墓碑, Mubei)

During the 20th century, an estimated 70 million people died from famines across the world, of whom an estimated 30 million died during the famine of 1958–61 in China,and about the same number of births were postponed or lost.

I wanna show my respectation to Mr. Yang Jisheng, a Chinese, a fact-addict. Yang Jisheng is the author of Tombstone (墓碑, Mubei). Full particulars and a well-written review can found here.

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.

Anna Applebaum of The Washington Post wrote:

A combination of criminally bad policies (farmers were forced to make steel
instead of growing crops; peasants were forced into unproductive communes) and
official cruelty (China was grimly exporting grain at the time) created, between
1959 and 1961, one of the worst famines in recorded history. "I went to one
village and saw 100 corpses," one witness told Yang. Then another village and
another 100 corpses. No one paid attention to them. People said that dogs were
eating the bodies. Not true, I said. The dogs had long ago been eaten by the
people.

I say:

This book may cure my allergy to "intellectuals" in mainland China. Thank you Mr. Yang.

The Big Famine which took place 50 years ago ("Three Years of Natural Disasters" , according to the official version) left the spells of hysteria to a whole generation. For me, the anxiety of my parents led to my unhappy puberty, for which I nearly damned back to Confucius ancestors (I'm really sorry). I had neither been thankful for the fact that my parents survived the biggest famine in human history, nor had I been helpful when they lost their balance in their doomy and slippery memery. I still feel shame about myself, but I'm lucky to be able to give an atonement. but, how about those 30,000,000 who died in that man-made "Natural Disasters", those who are as silent as soil, consisting of the major part of the "silent harmony" here, hoohaa ! what a bioclean Republic.