TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thaxton,Ralph
TI  - Catastrophe and contention in rural China: Mao's Great Leap forward famine and the origins of righteous resistance in Da Fo Village
SN  - 9780521897495 (hardback)
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Famines
KW  - Government, Resistance to
KW  - Peasant uprisings
KW  - Communism
KW  - History -- Communist Era -- Famines --Peasant Uprising
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-364) and index; 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007043011-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007043011-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0805/2007043011-t.html
ER  -