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Eating Bitterness: New Perspectives on China´s Great Leap Forward and Famine
Kimberley Ens Manning (Ed.)
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Description for Eating Bitterness: New Perspectives on China´s Great Leap Forward and Famine
Paperback. Eating Bitterness reveals what the Great Leap Forward meant for ordinary men and women in Maoist China. Editor(s): Manning, Kimberley Ens; Wemheuer, Felix. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JPQB; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
When the Chinese Communist Party assumed power, Mao Zedong declared that “not even one person shall die of hunger.” A little over a decade later, China was in the midst of the most devastating famine in modern history. Between 1957 and 1962 – the years commonly associated with Mao’s Great Leap Forward – some 30 million peasants died of starvation and exhaustion.
Rather than exploring why party leaders stumbled so badly in their attempts to modernize China, the contributors to this landmark collection draw on newly available sources to show how men and women in rural and urban settings experienced the ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Chinese Studies
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774817271
SKU
V9780774817271
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About Kimberley Ens Manning (Ed.)
Kimberley Ens Manning is an associate professor of political science at Concordia University. Felix Wemheuer is an assistant professor in the Department for East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna. Contributors: Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Richard King, Xin Yi, Wang Yanni, Gao Hua, Yixin Chen, Jeremy Brown, Ralph A. Thaxton Jr., and Wangling Gao
Reviews for Eating Bitterness: New Perspectives on China´s Great Leap Forward and Famine
An important collection that contributes both new perspectives and rich data. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the Great Leap Famine and the early years of the PRC.
Kathryn Egerton-Tarpley
The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol 71, Issue 2
Kathryn Egerton-Tarpley
The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol 71, Issue 2