Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China
Jr, Ralph A. (Brandeis University, Massachusetts) Thaxton
Cambridge University Press, 2008
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521722308
- ISBN-10
- 0521722306
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2008
- Publication date
- 2008-05-05
- Pages
- 408
- Dimensions
- 235x157x25
- Weight
- 598