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Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China
Ralph Thaxton
其他書名
Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village
出版Cambridge University Press, 2008-05-05
主題Business & Economics / Economic ConditionsHistory / Asia / ChinaHistory / Military / Revolutions & Wars of IndependencePolitical Science / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismPolitical Science / Comparative PoliticsPolitical Science / History & TheoryPolitical Science / Public Policy / Economic PolicySocial Science / Disasters & Disaster Relief
ISBN05217223069780521722308
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=14A1qPQOgQMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This book documents how China's rural people remember the great famine of Maoist rule, which proved to be the worst famine in modern world history. Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., sheds new light on how China's socialist rulers drove rural dwellers to hunger and starvation, on how powerless villagers formed resistance to the corruption and coercion of collectivization, and on how their hidden and contentious acts, both individual and concerted, allowed them to survive and escape the predatory grip of leaders and networks in the thrall of Mao's authoritarian plan for a full-throttle realization of communism - a plan that engendered an unprecedented disaster for rural families. Based on his study of a rural village's memories of the famine, Thaxton argues that these memories persisted long after the events of the famine and shaped rural resistance to the socialist state, both before and after the post-Mao era of reform.