Yang Jisheng

Yang Jisheng (born November 1940) is a Chinese journalist and author.
He wrote the book "Tombstone" (墓碑), about the Great Chinese Famine during the Great Leap Forward. He also wrote "The World Turned Upside Down" (天地翻覆), a history of the Cultural Revolution. Yang joined the Communist Party in 1964 His loyalty to the party was broken by the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Although he continued working for the Xinhua News Agency, he spent much of his time researching for "Tombstone". As of 2008, he was the deputy editor of the journal "Yanhuang Chunqiu" in Beijing. As of 2007, Yang Jisheng is on the list of those who are Fellow of China Media Project, a department under Hong Kong University.