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Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao´s Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village
Jr Ralph A. Thaxton
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Paperback. Thaxton argues that the memory of the great famine under Mao shaped villagers' resistance to the socialist state. Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics. Num Pages: 408 pages, 8 b/w illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 598.
This book documents how China's rural people remember the great famine of Maoist rule, which proved to be the worst famine in modern world history. Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., sheds new light on how China's socialist rulers drove rural dwellers to hunger and starvation, on how powerless villagers formed resistance to the corruption and coercion of collectivization, and on how their hidden and contentious acts, both individual and concerted, allowed them to survive and escape the predatory grip of leaders and networks in the thrall of Mao's authoritarian plan for a full-throttle realization of communism – a plan that engendered ... Read more
This book documents how China's rural people remember the great famine of Maoist rule, which proved to be the worst famine in modern world history. Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., sheds new light on how China's socialist rulers drove rural dwellers to hunger and starvation, on how powerless villagers formed resistance to the corruption and coercion of collectivization, and on how their hidden and contentious acts, both individual and concerted, allowed them to survive and escape the predatory grip of leaders and networks in the thrall of Mao's authoritarian plan for a full-throttle realization of communism – a plan that engendered ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521722308
SKU
V9780521722308
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About Jr Ralph A. Thaxton
Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr, is a Professor of Politics and the Chairman of the East Asian Studies Program at Brandeis University. He is the author of Salt of the Earth: The Political Origins of Peasant Protest in China (1977) and China Turned Rightside Up: Revolutionary Legitimacy in the Peasant World (1983). He was named a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University ... Read more
Reviews for Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao´s Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village
'… Thaxton is very good at tracking the shifts of power and influence in the small community he is studying, and the phases through which these went. … bold and profound …' The Royal Society for Asian Affairs 'This is a micro history, and it will be up to future studies to find commonalities with other parts of rural China. ... Read more