213:. 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." The book was published in Hong Kong and is banned in mainland China. In 2012 translations into French, German, and English (which has been condensed almost by 50%) have been published. He was reported to be banned from leaving China to receive the award in a ceremony in
280:" because it was extremely poor and, in the 1950s, China was still extremely poor. Ó Gráda also asserts that Yang's estimate of 40 million fewer births is excessive. Yang strongly dismissed these criticisms, arguing that the sources about population loss were reliable and accused Sun Jingxian of lacking basic knowledge about the Chinese household registration system at that time.
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Beginning in the early 1990s, Yang began interviewing people and collecting records of the Great
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number of deaths for that same year. Sun believed that this was an absurd mathematical formula and he called the book "extremely deceptive", characterizing it as faulty, inadequate and even fraudulent. In an academic paper, Sun wrote:
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As a professional mathematician we must seriously point out that from an academic point of view, completely violates the basic principles that modern mathematics must follow when dealing with such problems.
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