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Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine - Couverture souple

Yang, Dali L.

 
9780804734707: Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0804734704 ISBN 13 : 9780804734707
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

China's Great Leap Famine of 1959-61 resulted in 30 million deaths, making it easily the worst famine in human history. Yet unlike the Cultural Revolution - that other massive catastrophe of Mao's rule - the Great Leap Forward has received scant scholarly attention. This is partly because victims of the ensuing famine were inarticulate farmers and partly because many key players in that inglorious era are members of the current elite who tightly guard the archives. Despite these impediments, the author has marshalled an impressive array of historical documents to provide the first comprehensive treatment of the political causes and consequences of the Great Leap Famine. The Famine is important because it furnished the crucial historical motives for dismantling the rural collective institutional structure in post-Mao China two decades later and motivating tens of millions of ordinary Chinese to enact the reforms.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dali L. Yang is Professor and Chairman in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804734704
ISBN 13 
9780804734707
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
368
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Personne responsable
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