Eating bitterness new perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and famine / edited by Kimberley Ens Manning and Felix Wemheuer.
| Other author | Wemheuer, Felix. |
| Other author | Manning, Kimberley Ens, 1970- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Vancouver : UBC Press, |
| Description | viii, 321 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Contemporary Chinese studies, 1206-9523 Contemporary Chinese studies. ^A767036 |
| Contents | Re-imaging the Chinese peasant : the historiography on the Great Leap Forward / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik -- 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-315) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011378942 |
| ISBN | 9780774817264 |
| ISBN | 0774817267 |
| ISBN | 9780774817271 (pbk.) |
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