{"product_id":"eating-bitterness-kimberley-ens-manning-9780774817264","title":"Eating Bitterness: New Perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and Famine","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen 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. \u003ci\u003eEating Bitterness\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kimberley Ens Manning\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0774817267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780774817264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of British Columbia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2011 pg. 38","brand":"Kimberley Ens Manning","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086849552639,"sku":"9780774817264","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4c480fe3-4018-4278-8926-a013863bc458.jpg?v=1769096943","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/eating-bitterness-kimberley-ens-manning-9780774817264","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}