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Force and Contention in Contemporary China: Memory and Resistance in the Long Shadow of the Catastrophic Past - Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics Thaxton, Jr, Ralph A. (Brandeis University, Massachusetts)
Force and Contention in Contemporary China: Memory and Resistance in the Long Shadow of the Catastrophic Past - Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
Thaxton, Jr, Ralph A. (Brandeis University, Massachusetts)
The book is about how memories of Mao era suffering, particularly memories of suffering and loss in the Great Leap Forward Famine, have seeped into the present day post-Mao reform period to shape the way in which rural famine survivors see and resist state power and injustice today.
488 pages, 14 b/w illus. 2 maps
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 4, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781107539822 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 488 |
| Dimensions | 230 × 156 × 31 mm · 728 g |
| Language | English |