Download or read book The People s Communes in Communist China 1958 1962 written by Dennis Michael Ray and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of Red China Communes on the U S 1959 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Social History of Maoist China written by Felix Wemheuer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new social history of Maoist China provides an accessible view of the complex and tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule.
Download or read book The Chinese Communes written by Geoffrey Francis Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chinese Communes written by Richard Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mao s Great Famine written by Frank Dikötter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China. "Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives." So opens Frank Dikötter's riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives has long been restricted to all but the most trusted historians. A new archive law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that "fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era." Dikötter makes clear, as nobody has before, that far from being the program that would lift the country among the world's superpowers and prove the power of Communism, as Mao imagined, the Great Leap Forward transformed the country in the other direction. It became the site not only of "one of the most deadly mass killings of human history,"--at least 45 million people were worked, starved, or beaten to death--but also of "the greatest demolition of real estate in human history," as up to one-third of all housing was turned into rubble). The experiment was a catastrophe for the natural world as well, as the land was savaged in the maniacal pursuit of steel and other industrial accomplishments. In a powerful mesghing of exhaustive research in Chinese archives and narrative drive, Dikötter for the first time links up what happened in the corridors of power-the vicious backstabbing and bullying tactics that took place among party leaders-with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. His magisterial account recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.
Download or read book The Great Famine in China 1958 1962 written by Xun Zhou and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on previously closed archives that have since been made inaccessible again, this volume contains the most crucial primary documents concerning the fate of the Chinese peasantry between 1957 and 1962, covering everything from cannibalism and selective killing to mass murder.
Download or read book Hungry Ghosts written by C J Barker and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of Vic Woods and Ruth Wolfe, working-class teenagers from Liverpool and London, are profoundly disrupted by the arrival of World War II. Ruth’s journey leads her to aerial photographic interpretation, though her aspirations for advancement are denied, while Vic’s wartime experiences with bomber command haunt him long after the war is over. Their post-war marriage and tumultuous relationship with their son, James, make for a gripping narrative of trauma, conflict and, ultimately, love. Set against the backdrop of World War II and the social upheaval of the late 1960s, Hungry Ghosts transports readers into the drama of two pivotal eras in history, exploring the intergenerational impact of war, particularly on the intricate relationships between fathers and sons. Hungry Ghosts is not just a war story; it’s a timeless exploration of family bonds and the indelible scars left by war.
Download or read book Tombstone written by Yang Jisheng and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe.
Download or read book Forgotten Voices of Mao s Great Famine 1958 1962 written by Xun Zhou and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful account of China’s Great Famine as told through the voices of those who survived it
Download or read book The Great Famine in China 1958 1962 written by Xun Zhou and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning soon after the implementation of the policies of the Great Leap Forward of 1958-1961, when the drive to collectivize and industrialize undermined the livelihoods of the vast majority of peasant workers, China’s Great Famine was the worst famine in human history. In addition to claiming more than 45 million lives, it also led to the destruction of agriculture, industry, trade, and every aspect of human life, leaving large parts of the Chinese countryside scarred forever by human-created environmental disasters. Drawing on previously closed archives that have since been made inaccessible again, Zhou Xun offers readers, for the first time in English, access to the most vital archival documentation of the famine. For some time to come this documentary history may be the only publication available that contains the most crucial primary documents concerning the fate of the Chinese peasantry between 1957 and 1962. It covers everything from collectivization and survival strategies, including cannibalism, to selective killing and mass murder.
Download or read book The Chinese Commune written by George P. Jan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because Mao Zedong was a charismatic and romantic communist revolutionary, Jan (emeritus political science, U. of Toledo, Ohio) says he was able override the advice of his fellow revolutionary leaders in the Communist Party and launch the commune system in 1958 to accelerate the economic development and realization of communism in China. He describes how the system quickly developed difficulties and caused the tragic famine in China from 1959 to 1961. It is that two-year period that he focuses on, describing and analyzing the commune experiment at its peak, before it began to be modified then eventually abolished along with most other communist institutions by Deng Xiaoping after Mao's death in 1976. The text is double spaced, though the volume is high quality. Annotation :2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book Huadong The Story Of A Chinese People s Commune written by Gordon Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise report on one commune in China's innovative commune system is designed to present key features of the system as a whole. It focuses on the concept of the commune in Chinese Communist Party policy and covers Huadong's government and politics, economy, society, and culture.
Download or read book An Analytical Study of the Chinese Communists people s Communes written by Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League, Republic of China and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Red China s Green Revolution written by Joshua Eisenman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment and a rejection of the disastrous policies that produced widespread famine. In this revisionist study, Joshua Eisenman marshals previously inaccessible data to overturn this narrative, showing that the commune modernized agriculture, increased productivity, and spurred an agricultural green revolution that laid the foundation for China’s future rapid growth. Red China’s Green Revolution tells the story of the commune’s origins, evolution, and downfall, demonstrating its role in China’s economic ascendance. After 1970, the commune emerged as a hybrid institution, including both collective and private elements, with a high degree of local control over economic decision but almost no say over political ones. It had an integrated agricultural research and extension system that promoted agricultural modernization and collectively owned local enterprises and small factories that spread rural industrialization. The commune transmitted Mao’s collectivist ideology and enforced collective isolation so it could overwork and underpay its households. Eisenman argues that the commune was eliminated not because it was unproductive, but because it was politically undesirable: it was the post-Mao leadership led by Deng Xiaoping—not rural residents—who chose to abandon the commune in order to consolidate their control over China. Based on detailed and systematic national, provincial, and county-level data, as well as interviews with agricultural experts and former commune members, Red China’s Green Revolution is a comprehensive historical and social scientific analysis that fundamentally challenges our understanding of recent Chinese economic history.
Download or read book The Rise of the Chinese People s Communes written by Anna Louise Strong and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Commune Experiments in Communist China written by Chʻeng-chih Shih and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1974 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
