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Eating bitterness : new perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and famine
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- Creator
- edited by Kimberley Ens Manning and Felix Wemheuer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Vancouver : UBC Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Series
- Physical Details
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- viii, 321 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0774817283, 9781283054294, 0774817275, 0774817267, 1283054299, 9780774817264, 9780774817271, 9780774817288, 9786613054296, 6613054291
- OCLC
- ocn650755402, ocn923447969, ocn712855641
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-315) and index.
- 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