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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Chinese StudiesPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774817288
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Eating BitternessDDC classification:
  • 951.05
LOC classification:
  • DS777.56.E28 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1 Re-Imagining the Chinese Peasant -- 2 Romancing the Leap -- 3 The Gendered Politics of Woman-Work -- 4 "The Grain Problem Is an Ideological Problem" -- 5 On the Distribution System of Large-Scale People's Communes -- 6 An Introduction to the ABCs of Communization -- 7 Food Augmentation Methods and Food Substitutes during the Great Famine -- 8 Under the Same Maoist Sky -- 9 Great Leap City -- 10 How the Great Leap Forward Famine Ended in Rural China -- 11 A Study of Chinese Peasant "Counter-Action" -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Eating Bitterness reveals what the Great Leap Forward meant for ordinary men and women in Maoist China.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1 Re-Imagining the Chinese Peasant -- 2 Romancing the Leap -- 3 The Gendered Politics of Woman-Work -- 4 "The Grain Problem Is an Ideological Problem" -- 5 On the Distribution System of Large-Scale People's Communes -- 6 An Introduction to the ABCs of Communization -- 7 Food Augmentation Methods and Food Substitutes during the Great Famine -- 8 Under the Same Maoist Sky -- 9 Great Leap City -- 10 How the Great Leap Forward Famine Ended in Rural China -- 11 A Study of Chinese Peasant "Counter-Action" -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

Eating Bitterness reveals what the Great Leap Forward meant for ordinary men and women in Maoist China.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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