Catastrophe and contention in rural China
Subtitle: Mao's Great Leap famine and the origins of righteous resistance in Da Fo Village
By: Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge ; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780521897495; 9780521722308
Subjects: Famines -- China -- Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) -- History -- 20th century; Government, Resistance to -- China -- Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) -- History -- 20th century; Peasant uprisings -- China -- Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) -- History -- 20th century; Communism -- China -- Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) -- History -- 20th century; Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng, China) -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The republican era and the emergence of communist leadership during the anti-Japanese war of resistance; title: The ascent of the vigilante militia : the violent antecedents of Mao's war communism; title: The onset of collectivization and popular dissatisfaction with Mao's "yellow bomb" road; title: The mandate abandoned : the disaster of the Great Leap Forward; title: Strategies of survival and their elimination in the great leap forward; title: The escape from famine and death; title: Indignation and frustrated retaliation : the politics of disengagement; title: The market comes first : the economics of disengagement; title: Persistent memories and long-delayed retaliation in the reform era.