Weekly Meeting – Deanna Andrus, Book Review: ‘Tombstone, The Great Chinese Famine’ – Snake River Event Center (Shilo Inn, Idaho Falls)

Deanna Andrus grew up in the Idaho Falls area, and graduated from Idaho Falls High School in 1959, the same year that tens of millions of people in China were starving to death under the murderous policies of the Chinese Communist Party and their leader, Mao Zedong.

The author of “Tombstone,” Yang Jisheng, spent 10 years interviewing hundreds of eyewitnesses, consulting archives in more than a dozen Chinese provinces, during which time he accumulated documents totaling millions of words, and 10 notebooks full of notes on the Great Famine. Tombstone a book written to memorialize the 36 million Chinese men, women, and children who starved to death under the totalitarian policies of the Chinese Communist Party. 1958-1962

This book is outlawed in China.

Doors open at 5:30