Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine by Dali L. Yang

Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine

Dali L. Yang

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China's Great Leap Famine of 1959-61 resulted in 30 million deaths, making it easily the worst famine in human history. Yet unlike the Cultural Revolution - that other massive catastrophe of Mao's rule - the Great Leap Forward has received scant s...

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