Eating bitterness
Subtitle: new perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and famine
By: edited by Kimberley Ens Manning and Felix Wemheuer
Series: Contemporary Chinese studies; Contemporary Chinese studies
Publisher: UBC Press; University of British Columbia Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780774817264
Subjects: Politics and government; Conditions sociales; Conditions économiques; Histoire; Economic policy; Politique et gouvernement; Economic conditions; Famines; Social conditions; Politique économique; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-315) and index.
Table of contents: title: Re-imaging the Chinese peasant :; title: the historiography on the Great Leap Forward  -- Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik; title: Romancing the leap :; title: euphoria in the moment before disaster  -- Richard King; title: The gendered politics of woman-work :; title: rethinking radicalism in the Great Leap Forward  -- Kimberley Ens Manning; title: "The grain problem is an ideological problem" :; title: discources of hunger in 1957 socialist education canpaign  -- Felix Wemheuer; title: On the distribution system of large-scale people's communes  -- Xin Yi; title: An introduction to the abcs of communization :; title: a case study of Macheng County  -- Wang Yanni; title: Food augmentation methods and food substitutes during the great famine  -- Gao Hua; title: Under the same Maoist sky :; title: accounting for death rate discrepancies in Anhui and Jiangxi  -- Chen Yixin; title: Great Leap City :; title: surviving the famine in Tianjin  -- Jeremy Brown; title: How the Great Leap Forward famine ended in rural China :; title: "administration intervention" versus peasant resistance  -- Ralph A. Thaxton Jr.; title: A study of Chinese peasant "counter-action" -- Gao Wangling.