China S Great Leap
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Eating Bitterness
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Author : Kimberley Ens Manning
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Eating Bitterness written by Kimberley Ens Manning and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with History categories.
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 urban settings, from the provincial level to the grassroots, experienced the changes brought on by the party leaders' attempts to modernize China. This landmark volume lifts the curtain of party propaganda to expose the suffering of citizens and the deeply contested nature of state-society relations in Maoist China.
The Origins Of The Great Leap Forward
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Author : Jean-luc Domenach
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-06-26
The Origins Of The Great Leap Forward written by Jean-luc Domenach and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-26 with Political Science categories.
The first major study of the Great Leap Forward, this seminal volume has now been translated into English for a wider audience. Like no other work, it suggests compelling political and social answers to questions that have long plagued scholars: How could a party with such a successful rural base launch a movement so divorced from reality– especially in the countryside? Why was the movement pressed to the point of social chaos and economic collapse, giving rise to arguably the greatest famine in human history? Utilizing a wealth of primary material, Jean-Luc Domenach focuses on the central China province of Henan, which emerged as a national model of the Great Leap and was one of the most devastated by its failure. The author's documentary sources enable him to illuminate the development of provincial and local political life as well as to gauge popular reactions to the dictates of the center. Domenach presents a lucid analysis of the setbacks in agriculture in 1956 and 1957, the rise of economic corruption, and the launch of the CCP rectification campaign in 1957. Despite the enormous impact of the Great Leap on Chinese politics and economics in the decades that followed, it has proven immensely difficult to research. Domenach's contribution thus stands out as an original and important work on the period.
Telling The Truth China S Great Leap Forward Household Registration And The Famine Death Tally
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Author : Songlin Yang
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-05-25
Telling The Truth China S Great Leap Forward Household Registration And The Famine Death Tally written by Songlin Yang and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-25 with Political Science categories.
This book discusses what is often called the “Great Leap Famine”, which occurred in China during the years from 1959 to 1961. Scholarly consensus suggests that 30 million Chinese perished. Yang Songlin’s book provides an evidence-based, systematic and substantial rebuff, concluding that a much smaller number of deaths can be verified. This book is of interest to scholars of China and Chinese development and politics, economists, and demographers.
China S Road To Disaster
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Author : Frederick C. Teiwes
language : en
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Release Date : 1998-12-14
China S Road To Disaster written by Frederick C. Teiwes and has been published by M.E. Sharpe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-12-14 with History categories.
This text analyzes the dramatic shifts in Chinese Communist Party economic policy during the mid to late 1950s which eventually resulted in 30 to 45 million deaths through starvation as a result of the failed policies of the Great Leap Forward. Teiwes examines both the substance and the process of economic policy-making in that period, explaining how the rational policies of opposing rash advance in 1956-57 gave way to the fanciful policies of the Great Leap, and assessing responsibility for the failure to adjust adequately those policies even as signs of disaster began to reach higher level decision makers. In telling this story, Teiwes focuses on key participants in the process throughout both "rational" and "utopian" phases - Mao, other top leaders, central economic bureaucracies and local party leaders. The analysis rejects both of the existing influential explanations in the field, the long dominant power politics approach focusing on alleged clashes within the top leadership, and David Bachman's recent institutional interpretation of the origins of the Great Leap. Instead, this study presents a detailed picture of an exceptionally Mao-dominated process, where no other actor challenged his position, where the boldest step any actor took was to try and influence his preferences, and where the system in effect became paralyzed while Mao kept changing signals as disaster unfolded.
Heroes Of China S Great Leap Forward
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Author : Richard King
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2010-05-10
Heroes Of China S Great Leap Forward written by Richard King and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-10 with History categories.
Heroes of China’s Great Leap Forward presents contrasting narratives of the most ambitious and disastrous mass movement in modern Chinese history. The objective of the Great Leap, when it was launched in the late 1950s, was to catapult China into the ranks of the great military and industrial powers with no assistance from the outside world; it resulted in a famine that killed tens of millions of the nation’s peasants. Li Zhun’s "A Brief Biography of Li Shuangshuang," written while the movement was underway, celebrates the Great Leap as it was supposed to be: a time of optimism, dynamism, and shared purpose. A spirited young peasant woman, freed from the restrictions of home life, launches a canteen and wins the recognition of authorities and the admiration of her husband. The story—and the film that followed it—made Li Shuangshuang the greatest fictional heroine of the Great Leap. In contrast, Zhang Yigong’s short novel The Story of the Criminal Li Tongzhong, written two decades later, was one of the first works published in China to suggest a much darker side to the Great Leap. A village official leads a raid on a state granary to feed starving peasants; he is later arrested and dies a criminal. Although Zhang stopped short of portraying the horrors of famine, his tone of moral outrage provides a rejoinder to the triumphalism of "Li Shuangshuang." The stories are accompanied by an introduction to the Great Leap and portraits of the two writers, including their recollections of that traumatic time and the creation of their very different heroes.
China S Road To Disaster Mao Central Politicians And Provincial Leaders In The Great Leap Forward 1955 59
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Author : Frederick C Teiwes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-01
China S Road To Disaster Mao Central Politicians And Provincial Leaders In The Great Leap Forward 1955 59 written by Frederick C Teiwes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-01 with Political Science categories.
This text analyzes the dramatic shifts in Chinese Communist Party economic policy during the mid to late 1950s which eventually resulted in 30 to 45 million deaths through starvation as a result of the failed policies of the Great Leap Forward. Teiwes examines both the substance and the process of economic policy-making in that period, explaining how the rational policies of opposing rash advance in 1956-57 gave way to the fanciful policies of the Great Leap, and assessing responsibility for the failure to adjust adequately those policies even as signs of disaster began to reach higher level decision makers. In telling this story, Teiwes focuses on key participants in the process throughout both "rational" and "utopian" phases - Mao, other top leaders, central economic bureaucracies and local party leaders. The analysis rejects both of the existing influential explanations in the field, the long dominant power politics approach focusing on alleged clashes within the top leadership, and David Bachman's recent institutional interpretation of the origins of the Great Leap. Instead, this study presents a detailed picture of an exceptionally Mao-dominated process, where no other actor challenged his position, where the boldest step any actor took was to try and influence his preferences, and where the system in effect became paralyzed while Mao kept changing signals as disaster unfolded.
Telling The Truth China S Great Leap Forward Household Registration And The Famine Death Tally
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Author : Songlin Yang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Telling The Truth China S Great Leap Forward Household Registration And The Famine Death Tally written by Songlin Yang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
This book discusses about what is often called the "Great Leap Famine", which occurred in China during the years from 1959 to 1961. Scholarly consensus suggests that 30 million Chinese perished. Yang Songlin's book provides an evidence-based, systematic and substantial rebuff, concluding on a much smaller number of deaths. This book is of interest to scholars of China and Chinese development and politics, economists, and demographers. Yang Songlin has worked as a senior researcher at the Provincial Development Research Center of Henan and the Institute of Chinese Economic Systemic Reform in Beijing. His focus of research is on political economy and social history. He has published many papers, and his books include An Economic History of Henan (Kaifeng: Henan People's Publisher, 1988), West China: New Direction of Development and Reform (Beijing: Current Affairs Press, 1988); Economic Development at the County Level (Kaifeng: Henan People's Publisher, 1992); Dao and Tianxia: Debates on Issues concerning Contemporary World (Hong Kong: Dafeng Publisher, 2008); and The Truth Must be Told (Haikou: Nanhai Publishing Co., 2013).
China S Great Leap
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Author : Minky Worden
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2011-01-04
China S Great Leap written by Minky Worden and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Political Science categories.
With contributions from some of the most well respected and experienced Chinese writers, journalists, and organizers, China’s Great Leap examines the People’s Republic of China as its government and 1.3 billion people prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games. When Beijing first sought the Games, China was still recovering from the upheavals of Maoist rule and adapting to a market revolution. Today, China wants to engage with the outside world—while fully controlling the engagement. How will the new leaders in Beijing manage the Olympic process and the internal and external pressures for reform it creates? China’s Great Leap will illuminate China’s recent history and outline how domestic and international pressures in the context of the Olympics could achieve human rights change. Learn about key areas for human rights reform and how the Olympics could represent a possible great leap forward for the people of China and for the world.
China S Great Leap Outward
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Author : Andrew Scobell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-07-01
China S Great Leap Outward written by Andrew Scobell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with China categories.
"Presents case studies of China's twenty-first century efforts to leverage hard and soft power in its foreign policy. Explores China's economic and military policy in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as core principles that guide China's influence in Latin America and Africa"--
A Social History Of Maoist China
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Author : Felix Wemheuer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-28
A Social History Of Maoist China written by Felix Wemheuer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-28 with History categories.
This new social history of Maoist China provides an accessible view of the complex and tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule.