Eating bitterness new perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and famine / edited by Kimberley Ens Manning and Felix Wemheuer.

SeriesContemporary 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [295]-315) and index.
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LCCN 2011378942
ISBN9780774817264
ISBN0774817267
ISBN9780774817271 (pbk.)

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