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.
Imprint
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-364) and index.
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 and the origins of reform -- Persistent memories and long-delayed retaliation in the reform era.
