Ian Johnson fait la synthèse des livres suivants  sur la grande famine de Mao dans le New York Review of Books

Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962 
by Yang Jisheng, translated from the Chinese by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 629 pp., $35.00                                                  

The Great Famine in China, 1958–1962: A Documentary History 
edited by Zhou Xun
Yale University Press, 204 pp., $45.00                                                  

Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962 
by Frank Dikötter
Walker, 420 pp., $20.00 (paper)                                                  

Mubei: Zhongguo liushi niandai dajihuang jiushi [Tombstone: A True History of the Great Famine in China in the 1960s] 
by Yang Jisheng
Hong Kong: Tiandi tushu youxian gongsi, Volume 1: 636 pp., Volume 2: 1,208 pp., $30.96                                                  

Hungry Ghosts: Mao’s Secret Famine 
by Jasper Becker
Holt, 325 pp., $21.99 (paper)