LEADER 04186nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910789825503321 005 20230126204704.0 010 $a1-283-05429-9 010 $a9786613054296 010 $a0-7748-1728-3 024 7 $a10.59962/9780774817288 035 $a(CKB)2670000000080402 035 $a(EBL)3412664 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000536054 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11356860 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000536054 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10547085 035 $a(PQKB)11524479 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3412664 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00226673 035 $a(CEL)436498 035 $a(OCoLC)712855641 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse49094 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3412664 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10459077 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL305429 035 $a(OCoLC)923447969 035 $a(DE-B1597)661362 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780774817288 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000080402 100 $a20100820d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aEating bitterness$b[electronic resource] $enew perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and famine /$fedited by Kimberley Ens Manning and Felix Wemheuer 210 $aVancouver $cUBC Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (333 p.) 225 1 $aContemporary Chinese studies,$x1206-9523 311 $a0-7748-1726-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aRe-imaging the Chinese peasant : the historiography on the Great Leap Forward / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik -- Romancing the leap : euphoria in the moment before disaster / Richard King -- The gendered politics of woman-work : rethinking radicalism in the Great Leap Forward / Kimberley Ens Manning -- "The grain problem is an ideological problem" : discources of hunger in 1957 socialist education canpaign / Felix Wemheuer -- On the distribution system of large-scale people's communes / Xin Yi -- An introduction to the abcs of communization : a case study of Macheng County / Wang Yanni -- Food augmentation methods and food substitutes during the great famine / Gao Hua -- Under the same Maoist sky : accounting for death rate discrepancies in Anhui and Jiangxi / Chen Yixin -- Great Leap City : surviving the famine in Tianjin / Jeremy Brown -- How the Great Leap Forward famine ended in rural China : "administration intervention" versus peasant resistance / Ralph A. Thaxton Jr. -- A study of Chinese peasant "counter-action" / Gao Wangling. 330 $aWhen the Chinese Communist Party assumed power, Mao Zedong declared that "not even one person shall die of hunger." A little over a decade later, China was in the midst of the most devastating famine in modern history. Between 1957 and 1962 ? the years commonly associated with Mao's Great Leap Forward ? some 30 million peasants died of starvation and exhaustion. Rather than exploring why party leaders stumbled so badly in their attempts to modernize China, the contributors to this landmark collection draw on newly available sources to show how men and women in rural and urban settings experienced the changes during this period. Eating Bitterness lifts the curtain of officially propagated images of mass mobilization to expose the uneven and deeply contested nature of state-society relations in Maoist China. It also illuminates the role that history writing and memory have played in shaping narratives of the recent past. 410 0$aContemporary Chinese studies. 606 $aFamines$zChina$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aChina$xHistory$y1949-1976 607 $aChina$xPolitics and government$y1949-1976 607 $aChina$xEconomic policy$y1949-1976 607 $aChina$xSocial conditions$y1949-1976 607 $aChina$xEconomic conditions$y1949-1976 615 0$aFamines$xHistory 676 $a951.05 701 $aManning$b Kimberley Ens$f1970-$01472023 701 $aWemheuer$b Felix$01472024 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789825503321 996 $aEating bitterness$93684610 997 $aUNINA