Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine,New

Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine,New

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China's Great Leap Famine of 195961 resulted in 30 million deaths, making it easily the worst famine in human history. Yet unlike the Cultural Revolution that other massive catastrophe of Mao's rule the Great Leap Forward has received scant scholarly attention. This is partly because victims of the ensuing famine were inarticulate farmers and partly because many key players in that inglorious era are members of the current elite who tightly guard the archives. Despite these impediments, the author has marshalled an impressive array of historical documents to provide the first comprehensive treatment of the political causes and consequences of the Great Leap Famine. The Famine is important because it furnished the crucial historical motives for dismantling the rural collective institutional structure in postMao China two decades later and motivating tens of millions of ordinary Chinese to enact the reforms.

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