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This is the first book-length treatment of the political causes and consequences of the Great Leap Famine (1959-61), one of the worst tragedies in human history
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-13 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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Following the end of World War II in 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spent the next three decades carrying out agrarian reform among nearly one-third of
Peasant Power in China
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Pages: 296
Authors: Daniel Roy Kelliher
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From 1979-1989 rural life in China was transformed: communes were dismantled and government domination eased. From field work in Hubei and south-central China,
Prosperity's Predicament
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This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read and debated for what it reveals about China's rural dynamics as well as the nature of state po
Rightful Resistance in Rural China
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How can the poor and weak 'work' a political system to their advantage? Drawing mainly on interviews and surveys in rural China, Kevin O'Brien and Lianjiang Li