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Author Thaxton, Ralph, 1944-

Title Catastrophe and contention in rural China : Mao's Great Leap famine and the origins of righteous resistance in Da Fo Village / Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 383 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge studies in contentious politics
Cambridge studies in contentious politics.
Contents The republican era and the emergence of communist leadership during the anti-Japanese war of resistance -- The ascent of the vigilante militia : the violent antecedents of Mao's war communism -- The onset of collectivization and popular dissatisfaction with Mao's "yellow bomb" road -- The mandate abandoned : the disaster of the Great Leap Forward -- Strategies of survival and their elimination in the great leap forward -- The escape from famine and death -- Indignation and frustrated retaliation : the politics of disengagement -- The market comes first : the economics of disengagement and the origins of reform -- Persistent memories and long-delayed retaliation in the reform era
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-364) and index
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Subject Famines -- China -- Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) -- History -- 20th century
Government, Resistance to -- China -- Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) -- History -- 20th century
Peasant uprisings -- China -- Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) -- History -- 20th century
Communism -- China -- Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
Communism.
Economic history.
Famines.
Government, Resistance to.
Peasant uprisings.
SUBJECT Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng, China) -- Economic conditions
Subject China -- Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng)
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511396915
0511396910
0511399278
9780511399275
9780511398438
0511398433