Eating bitterness :: new perspectives on China's great leap forward and famine /

When the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Mao Zedong declared that "not even one person shall die of hunger." Yet some 30 million peasants died of starvation and exhaustion during the Great Leap Forward. Eating Bitterness reveals how men and women in rural and urban settings,...

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Other Authors: Wemheuer, Felix, Manning, Kimberley Ens, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2011.
Series:Contemporary Chinese studies.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:When the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Mao Zedong declared that "not even one person shall die of hunger." Yet some 30 million peasants died of starvation and exhaustion during the Great Leap Forward. Eating Bitterness reveals how men and women in rural and urban settings, from the provincial level to the grassroots, experienced the changes brought on by the party leaders' stumbled attempts to modernize China. This landmark volume lifts the curtain of party propaganda to expose the suffering of citizens and the deeply-contested nature of state-society relations in Maoist China.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 321 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-315) and index.
ISBN:9780774817288
0774817283
9780774817271
0774817275
1283054299
9781283054294
9786613054296
6613054291
ISSN:1206-9523

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