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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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Cambridge studies in contentious politics.
Main Author: Thaxton, Ralph, 1944-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Series:Cambridge studies in contentious politics.
Subjects:
Famines > China > Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) > History > 20th century.
Government, Resistance to > China > Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) > History > 20th century.
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.
Physical Description:xxii, 383 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
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.