Title:
Eating bitterness : new perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and famine / edited by Kimberley Ens Manning and Felix Wemheuer.
Author:
Wemheuer, Felix.
Manning, Kimberley Ens, 1970-
Publication Information:
Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2011.
Call Number:
DS777.55 .E325 2011
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic Access:
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ISBN:
9780774817264
9780774817271
9781283054294
9780774817288
9780774859554
Series:
Contemporary Chinese studies,
Contemporary Chinese studies.
Physical Description:
viii, 321 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Re-imaging the Chinese peasant : the historiography on the Great Leap Forward / Romancing the leap : euphoria in the moment before disaster / The gendered politics of woman-work : rethinking radicalism in the Great Leap Forward / "The grain problem is an ideological problem" : discources of hunger in 1957 socialist education canpaign / On the distribution system of large-scale people's communes / An introduction to the abcs of communization : a case study of Macheng County / Food augmentation methods and food substitutes during the great famine / Under the same Maoist sky : accounting for death rate discrepancies in Anhui and Jiangxi / Great Leap City : surviving the famine in Tianjin / How the Great Leap Forward famine ended in rural China : "administration intervention" versus peasant resistance / A study of Chinese peasant "counter-action"
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