An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great FamineWinner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize 2011.
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An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great FamineWinner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize 2011.
""Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake Britain in less than fifteen years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, d…
Eating Bitterness
by Wemheuer, Felix, Ens Manning, Kimberley
fromContemporary Chinese studies series
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Type: Book
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1 Re-Imagining the Chinese Peasant -- 2 Romancing the Leap -- 3 The Gendered Politics of Woman-Work -- 4 "The Grain Problem Is an Ideological Problem"--5 On the Distribution System of Large-Scale People's Communes -- 6 …
When the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Mao Zedong declared that "not even one person shall die of hunger." Yet some 30 million peasants died of starvation and exhaustion during the Great Leap Forward. Eating Bitterness reveals how men and women in rural and urba…
When the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Mao Zedong declared that "not even one person shall die of hunger." Yet some 30 million peasants died of starvation and exhaustion during the Great Leap Forward. Eating Bitterness reveals how men and women in rural and urba…
Contains primary source material.
In Heaven cracks, earth shakes, acclaimed historian James Palmer tells the story of 1976, the most tumultuous year in modern Chinese history. The year began with the death of the popular Premier Zhou Enlai, whose passing was widely mourned by the masses-- but this public grief q…
"China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976. Andrew G. Walder argues that Mao's China was defined by two distinctive institutions: a Party apparatus that exercised firm discipline over its members ; and a socialist economy mode…
