Heroes Of China S Great Leap Forward
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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.
Mao Zedong And Contemporary China
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Author : Katsuji Nakagane
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Mao Zedong And Contemporary China written by Katsuji Nakagane and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The World Turned Upside Down
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Author : Yang Jisheng
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2021-01-19
The World Turned Upside Down written by Yang Jisheng and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with History categories.
Yang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail. As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong’s ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union’s "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he called "bourgeois" forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This ten-year-long class struggle on a massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the nation’s economy. Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Tombstone, Yang Jisheng here presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today. The World Turned Upside Down puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and Mao-style cult of personality.
Mao S Great Famine
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Author : Frank Dikötter
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2010-10-01
Mao S Great Famine written by Frank Dikötter and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with History categories.
Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China. "Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives." So opens Frank Dikötter's riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives has long been restricted to all but the most trusted historians. A new archive law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that "fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era." Dikötter makes clear, as nobody has before, that far from being the program that would lift the country among the world's superpowers and prove the power of Communism, as Mao imagined, the Great Leap Forward transformed the country in the other direction. It became the site not only of "one of the most deadly mass killings of human history,"--at least 45 million people were worked, starved, or beaten to death--but also of "the greatest demolition of real estate in human history," as up to one-third of all housing was turned into rubble). The experiment was a catastrophe for the natural world as well, as the land was savaged in the maniacal pursuit of steel and other industrial accomplishments. In a powerful mesghing of exhaustive research in Chinese archives and narrative drive, Dikötter for the first time links up what happened in the corridors of power-the vicious backstabbing and bullying tactics that took place among party leaders-with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. His magisterial account recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.
Hungry Ghosts
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Author : C J Barker
language : en
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing
Release Date : 2024-03-28
Hungry Ghosts written by C J Barker and has been published by Book Guild Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-28 with Fiction categories.
The lives of Vic Woods and Ruth Wolfe, working-class teenagers from Liverpool and London, are profoundly disrupted by the arrival of World War II. Ruth’s journey leads her to aerial photographic interpretation, though her aspirations for advancement are denied, while Vic’s wartime experiences with bomber command haunt him long after the war is over. Their post-war marriage and tumultuous relationship with their son, James, make for a gripping narrative of trauma, conflict and, ultimately, love. Set against the backdrop of World War II and the social upheaval of the late 1960s, Hungry Ghosts transports readers into the drama of two pivotal eras in history, exploring the intergenerational impact of war, particularly on the intricate relationships between fathers and sons. Hungry Ghosts is not just a war story; it’s a timeless exploration of family bonds and the indelible scars left by war.
Tombstone
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Author : Yang Jisheng
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-10-30
Tombstone written by Yang Jisheng and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-30 with History categories.
I call this book Tombstone. It is a tombstone for my foster father who died of hunger in 1959, for the 36 million Chinese who also died of hunger, for the system that caused their death, and perhaps for myself for writing this book.' The most powerful and important Chinese work of recent years, Yang Jisheng's Tombstone is a passionate, moving and angry account of one of the 20th century's most nightmarish events: the killing of an estimated 36 million Chinese in 1958-1961 by starvation or physical abuse. More people died in Mao's Great Famine than in the entire First World War and yet their story remains substantially untold. Now, at last, they can be heard. Based on survivors' testimonies, this book was greeted with huge acclaim when published in Hong Kong as an essential work of reckoning. 'The man who exposed Mao's secret famine' Financial Times
Three Months In Mao S China
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Author : Erik-Jan Zürcher
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2017-02-28
Three Months In Mao S China written by Erik-Jan Zürcher and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-28 with History categories.
In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zürcher traveled for the first time to China, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zürcher's personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not only new insights about the great scholar, but also a rich picture of communist China, which was in those days still almost completely inaccessible to Westerners. During a tumultuous time in world politics, as Nikita Khrushchev was deposed, Lyndon Johnson won the US presidential election against Barry Goldwater, and China became a nuclear power, Zürcher experienced the reality of China under Mao Zedong. Only recently discovered, these documents portray through an expert's eye a land in the midst of its own massive political, social, and economic change. Both a fascinating account by an informed outsider and a reminder of just how much China and the rest of the world have changed over the last fifty years, this is essential reading for anyone interested in East Asia and Asian history as a whole. Erik Zürcher (1928-2008) was professor of the history of East Asia at Leiden University. Erik-Jan Zürcher is professor of Turkish studies at Leiden University. Kim van der Zouw is editor of educational material. Vivien Collingwood is a translator and editor based in the Netherlands
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.
Mao S New World
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Author : Chang-tai Hung
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011
Mao S New World written by Chang-tai Hung and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Arts categories.
Mao's New World examines how Mao Zedong and senior Party leaders transformed the PRC into a propaganda state in the first decade of their rule (1949-1959).
The Great Famine In China 1958 1962
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Author : Xun Zhou
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-10
The Great Famine In China 1958 1962 written by Xun Zhou and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-10 with History categories.
Drawing on previously closed archives that have since been made inaccessible again, this volume contains the most crucial primary documents concerning the fate of the Chinese peasantry between 1957 and 1962, covering everything from cannibalism and selective killing to mass murder.