Catastrophe and contention in rural China : Mao's Great Leap forward famine and the origins of righteous resistance in Da Fo Village

Catastrophe and contention in rural China : Mao's Great Leap forward famine and the origins of righteous resistance in Da Fo Village / Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr.

Author/creator	Thaxton, Ralph, 1944-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description	xxii, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Contributor biographical information
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subject(s)	Famines--China --Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) --History --20th century. Government, Resistance to--China --Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) --History --20th century. Peasant uprisings--China --Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) --History --20th century. Communism--China --Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) --History --20th century. Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng, China)--Economic conditions.

Series	Cambridge studies in contentious politics Cambridge studies in contentious politics. ^A492735
Contents	The Republican Era and the emergence of communist leadership during the anti-Japanese war of resistance -- The ascent of the vigilante militia : the violent antecedents of Mao's war communism -- The onset of collectivization and popular dissatisfaction with Mao's "yellow bomb" road -- The mandate abandoned : the disaster of the Great Leap Forward -- Strategies of survival and their elimination in the Great Leap Forward -- The escape from famine and death -- Indignation and frustrated retaliation : the politics of disengagement -- The market comes first : the economics of disengagement and the origins of reform -- Persistent memories and long-delayed retaliation in the reform era.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-364) and index.
LCCN	2007043011
ISBN	9780521897495 (hardback)
ISBN	0521897491 (hardback)
ISBN	9780521722308 (pbk.)
ISBN	0521722306 (pbk.)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	HC 428.D34 T43 2008	✔ Available	Place Hold