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Catastrophe and contention in rural China : Mao's Great Leap forward famine and the origins of righteous resistance in Da Fo Village / Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr.

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Thaxton, Ralph, 1944-
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Physical Description
xxii, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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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.
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ISBN
9780521897495 (hardback)
0521897491 (hardback)
9780521722308 (pbk.)
0521722306 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-364) and index.
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