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Title The great famine in China, 1958-1962 : a documentary history / edited by Zhou Xun
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2012]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 204 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on the Documents -- Map of China in 1959 -- CHAPTER 1. Famine in the Communes (March-September 1958) -- CHAPTER 2. Terror, Repression, and Violence (1958-1961) -- CHAPTER 3. Seasons of Death (1959-1962) -- CHAPTER 4. Cannibalism (Late 1959-Early 1961) -- CHAPTER 5. Devastation in the Countryside (1958-1961) -- CHAPTER 6. The Turn to Religion (1957-1962) -- CHAPTER 7. Strategies for Survival (1959-1962) -- CHAPTER 8. Letters of Complaint (1957-1962) -- Epilogue (1961-1962) -- Organizational Structure of the Government of the People's Republic of China -- Chronology -- Notes -- Index of Documents -- Index
Summary Beginning soon after the implementation of the policies of the Great Leap Forward of 1958-1961, when the drive to collectivize and industrialize undermined the livelihoods of the vast majority of peasant workers, China's Great Famine was the worst famine in human history. In addition to claiming more than 45 million lives, it also led to the destruction of agriculture, industry, trade, and every aspect of human life, leaving large parts of the Chinese countryside scarred forever by human-created environmental disasters. Drawing on previously closed archives that have since been made inaccessible again, Zhou Xun offers readers, for the first time in English, access to the most vital archival documentation of the famine. For some time to come this documentary history may be the only publication available that contains the most crucial primary documents concerning the fate of the Chinese peasantry between 1957 and 1962. It covers everything from collectivization and survival strategies, including cannibalism, to selective killing and mass murder
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 12, 2024)
Subject Famines -- China -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Food supply -- China -- History -- Sources
Starvation -- history
History, 20th Century
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Famines
Food supply
Population
SUBJECT China -- Population -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
China -- History -- 1949-1976 -- Sources
China https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002681
Subject China
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Zhou, Xun, 1968- editor.
LC no. 2011045260
ISBN 9780300183580
0300183585