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Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village - Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics Thaxton, Jr, Ralph A. (Brandeis University, Massachusetts)
Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village - Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
Thaxton, Jr, Ralph A. (Brandeis University, Massachusetts)
Thaxton analyzes how the local Communist Party agents of the Mao-led central government imposed the famine of the Great Leap Forward on one rural village, how villagers remember this traumatic experience, and how they engaged in resistance to escape the famine and the predatory rule it reflected.
406 pages, 8 b/w illus. 2 maps
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 5, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521897495 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 406 |
| Dimensions | 160 × 240 × 30 mm · 710 g |
| Language | English |