Title Catastrophe and contention in rural China : Mao's Great Leap famine and the origins of righteous resistance in Da Fo Village / Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr.

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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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Description	1 online resource (xxii, 383 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Cambridge studies in contentious politics
	Cambridge studies in contentious politics.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-364) and index.
Contents	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.
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Subject	Famines -- China -- Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) -- History -- 20th century.
	Famines.
	China -- Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng)
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Government, Resistance to -- China -- Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) -- History -- 20th century.
	Government, Resistance to.
	Peasant uprisings -- China -- Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) -- History -- 20th century.
	Peasant uprisings.
	Communism -- China -- Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng) -- History -- 20th century.
	Communism.
	Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng, China) -- Economic conditions.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Thaxton, Ralph, 1944- Catastrophe and contention in rural China. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521897495 (DLC) 2007043011 (OCoLC)180190763
ISBN	9780511396915 (electronic book)
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	9780521897495 (hardback)
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Title Catastrophe and contention in rural China : Mao's Great Leap famine and the origins of righteous resistance in Da Fo Village / Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr.

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