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Eating Bitterness: New Perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and Famine (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780774817264)
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Kimberley Ens Manning
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xWhen 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' 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.
Author: Kimberley Ens Manning
ISBN-10: 0774817267
ISBN-13: 9780774817264
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2011
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 06/01/2011 pg. 38
By Kimberley Ens Manning
xKimberly Ens Manning is an assistant professor of political science at Concordia University. Felix Wemheuer is an assistant professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna. The contributors include Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Richard King, Xin Yi, Wang Yanni, Gao Hua, Yixin Chen, Jeremy Brown, Ralph A. Thaxton Jr., and Wangling Gao.
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