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Title:

Eating bitterness : new perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and famine / edited by Kimberley Ens Manning and Felix Wemheuer.

Publisher:

UBC Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

viii, 321 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

China--History--1949-1976.
Famines--China--History--20th century.
China--Politics and government--1949-1976.
China--Economic policy--1949-1976.
China--Social conditions--1949-1976.
China--Economic conditions--1949-1976.

Other Authors:

Wemheuer, Felix.
Manning, Kimberley Ens, 1970-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-315) and index.

Contents:

A study of Chinese peasant "counter-action" / the historiography on the Great Leap Forward / Gao Wangling. Romancing the leap : euphoria in the moment before disaster / Richard King -- The gendered politics of woman-work : rethinking radicalism in the Great Leap Forward / Kimberley Ens Manning -- "The grain problem is an ideological problem" : discources of hunger in 1957 socialist education canpaign / Felix Wemheuer -- On the distribution system of large-scale people's communes / Xin Yi -- An introduction to the abcs of communization : a case study of Macheng County / Wang Yanni -- Food augmentation methods and food substitutes during the great famine / Gao Hua -- Under the same Maoist sky : accounting for death rate discrepancies in Anhui and Jiangxi / Chen Yixin -- Great Leap City : surviving the famine in Tianjin / Jeremy Brown -- How the Great Leap Forward famine ended in rural China : "administration intervention" versus peasant resistance / Ralph A. Thaxton Jr. -- A study of Chinese peasant "counter-action" / Gao Wangling.

Series:

Contemporary Chinese studies, 1206-9523.

ISBN:

0774817267
9780774817264

OCLC:

(OCoLC)650755402

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)