Eating Bitterness : New Perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and Famine /

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When the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Mao Zedong declared that "not even one person shall die of hunger." Yet some 30 million peasants died of starvation and exhaustion during the Great Leap Forward. Eating Bitterness reveals how men and women in rural and urban settings,...

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Détails bibliographiques
Autres auteurs: Manning, Kimberley Ens, 1970-, Wemheuer, Felix
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Social conditions.
Politics and government.
Famines.
Economic policy.
Economic history.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
Famines > Chine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Famines > China > History > 20th century.
China.
Chine > Conditions economiques > 1949-1976.
Chine > Conditions sociales > 1949-1976.
Chine > Politique economique > 1949-1976.
Chine > Politique et gouvernement > 1949-1976.
Chine > Histoire > 1949-1976.
China > Economic conditions > 1949-1976.
China > Social conditions > 1949-1976.
China > Economic policy > 1949-1976.
China > Politics and government > 1949-1976.
China > History > 1949-1976.
History.
Electronic books.
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Résumé:When the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Mao Zedong declared that "not even one person shall die of hunger." Yet some 30 million peasants died of starvation and exhaustion during the Great Leap Forward. Eating Bitterness reveals how men and women in rural and urban settings, from the provincial level to the grassroots, experienced the changes brought on by the party leaders' stumbled attempts to modernize China. This landmark volume lifts the curtain of party propaganda to expose the suffering of citizens and the deeply-contested nature of state-society relations in Maoist China.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (336 pages).
ISBN:9780774817288
ISSN:1206-9523

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