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Yang Jisheng

Chinese journalist

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  • Momentum12.8
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    Born 1940
  • Awards
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Updated 2026-06-12

Yang Jisheng is a Chinese journalist and author. His work include Tombstone (墓碑), a comprehensive account of the Great Chinese Famine during the Great Leap Forward, and The World Turned Upside Down (天地翻覆), a history of the Cultural Revolution. Yang joined the Communist Party in 1964 and graduated from Tsinghua University in 1966. He promptly joined Xinhua News Agency, where he worked until his retirement in 2001. His loyalty to the party was destroyed by the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

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Momentum12.8
Historical11.5
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Source confidence60.0
Completeness70.0
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