• Jasper Martin Becker (born 19 May 1956) is a British author, commentator, and journalist who has spent two decades as a foreign correspondent, mostly in...
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  • Chinese Famine by British author Jasper Becker, the former Beijing bureau chief for the South China Morning Post. Becker interviewed peasants in Henan Province...
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    college president Jasper Becker (born 1956), British author, commentator and journalist Jasper S. Bilby (1864–1949), American surveyor Jasper Blaxland (1880–1963)...
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    Press. p. 68. ISBN 9780804750011. Jasper Becker (15 June 2008). Mongolia: Travels in the Untamed Land. Jasper Becker. pp. 355–. GGKEY:WYN69Z428Q4. Thomas...
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     7. Becker, Jasper (1996). Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine. London: John Murray. ch. 14. Siefkes 2022, pp. 251–252. Siefkes 2022, p. 264. Becker 1996...
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    March 2004 "Comrade Jiang Zemin does indeed seem a proper choice", Jasper Becker, London Review of Books, Vol. 23 No. 10, 24 May 2001 "Eating the mosquito:...
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    the material in the State Statistical Bureau was burned. According to Jasper Becker, under-reporting of deaths was also a problem. The death registration...
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    the revenues of the state as her own. The long-time China journalist Jasper Becker recalled that "every visitor to the Summer Palace is shown the beautiful...
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    and sometimes claimed a lot of victims. One man told the journalist Jasper Becker that in May 1997 a couple had been "executed for murdering 50 children"...
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  • (called 오과 Ogwa).[citation needed] According to the British journalist Jasper Becker writing for the Asia Times in 2003, a former bodyguard has said that...
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  • Archived from the original on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2020. Becker, Jasper (1996). Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine. The Free Press. ISBN 978-0-6848-3457-3...
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     22-23. Fulton 2018, p. 25. Needham 1994, p. 215. Purton 2009, p. 29. Jasper Becker (2008). City of heavenly tranquility: Beijing in the history of China...
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    Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2014. Jasper Becker (2005). Rogue Regime : Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea...
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     22-23. Fulton 2018, p. 25. Needham 1994, p. 215. Purton 2009, p. 29. Jasper Becker (2008). City of heavenly tranquility: Beijing in the history of China...
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    Paul (1997). "Book review. 'Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine' by Jasper Becker". The China Journal. 38: 201–202. doi:10.2307/2950355. JSTOR 2950355...
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    1969. Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea, Jasper Becker, Oxford University Press, 2005, pages 48, 91–92. Lankov, Andrei. From...
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    revolutionary principles of Marxism–Leninism". Brian Reynolds Myers, Jasper Becker, and Dae-Sook Suh argue that the WPK's ideology is xenophobic, racist...
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    rather than a human-made disaster, the journalists Yang Jisheng and Jasper Becker provide many detailed reports in their books Tombstone and Hungry Ghosts...
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  • Ethnic Impacts on Diplomacy 1971–1994, I.B.Tauris, ISBN 9781860641695 Jasper Becker (1 May 2005). Rogue Regime : Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North...
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  • [needs update] The fate of biology in the Soviet Union is cited by Jasper Becker as a reason why society has an interest in protecting academic freedom...
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    these plans were implemented had a much lower death toll from famine. Jasper Becker, however, wrote that Zhao's torture campaign during the Great Leap meant...
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    (in Chinese). Xinmin Evening News. Retrieved 22 March 2018. "上海博物馆". Jasper Becker (3 January 2001). "Ma Chengyuan and the creation of Shanghai Museum"...
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  • 2000–01 editorial pages editor Danny Gittings, Beijing correspondent Jasper Becker and China pages editor Willy Lam. Not long after Kuok's purchase of...
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    Steppes of Mongolia. Cooper Square Press. p. 280. ISBN 0-8154-1287-8. Jasper Becker. "Outlaw or Hunting Wolves". Mongolia Today. Archived from the original...
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    State, Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia (Thomas Jefferson Foundation). Jasper Becker, The Chinese: An Insider's Look at the Issues Which Affect and Shape...
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    backward to the relationship of Germany and Britain a century ago. Jasper Becker, a British author and commentator, criticised Kissinger's book for failing...
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    Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017. Jasper Becker (2008). City of heavenly tranquility: Beijing in the history of China...
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    Dartsedo had a "reform through labor" prison or laogai after 1959. Jasper Becker in Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine wrote, "The highest death rate...
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  • Tsar (2003); and Jung Chang, author of Mao: The Unknown Story (2005). Jasper Becker, author of Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine (1998), praised the book...
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  • Union, the People's Republic of China and Democratic Kampuchea alone. Jasper Becker, author of Hungry Ghosts, claims that if the death tolls from the famines...
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