Thaxton, Ralph <br/><br/>
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. 
 - Cambridge  New York  Cambridge University Press  2008 
 - xxii, 383 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-364) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521897495 (hardback) 9780521722308 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Famines<br/>Government, Resistance to<br/>Peasant uprisings<br/>Communism<br/>History -- Communist Era -- Famines --Peasant Uprising