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Catastrophe and contention in rural China : Mao's Great Leap famine and the origins of righteous resistance in Da Fo Village
- 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.
- Author
- Thaxton, Ralph, 1944-
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Details
- Description
- xxii, 383 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in contentious politics
- Subjects
- Peasant uprisings > China > Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) > History > 20th century
- Communism > China > Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) > History > 20th century
- Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng, China) > Economic conditions
- Famines > China > Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) > History > 20th century
- Government, Resistance to > China > Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-364) and index.
- 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 -- Persistent memories and long-delayed retaliation in the reform era.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-4214
- ISBN
- 9780521897495 (hardback)
- 0521897491 (hardback)
- 9780521722308 (pbk.)
- 0521722306 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2007043011
- OCLC
- 180190763
- 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.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Series
- Cambridge studies in contentious politics
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-364) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-4214