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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

Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China( )
Author: Thaxton, Ralph A.
Series title:Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics Ser.
ISBN:978-0-521-72230-8
Publication Date:May 2008
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $36.99
Book Description:

Thaxton analyzes how the local Communist Party agents of the Mao-led central government imposed the famine of the Great Leap Forward on one rural village, how villagers remember this traumatic experience, and how they engaged in resistance to escape the famine and the predatory rule it reflected.



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