Catastrophe Contention Rural China: Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics) - Softcover

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Thaxton Jr, Ralph A.

 
9780521722308: Catastrophe Contention Rural China: Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)
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ISBN 10: 0521722306 ISBN 13: 9780521722308
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Thaxton argues that the memory of the great famine under Mao shaped villagers' resistance to the socialist state.

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About the Author

Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr, is a Professor of Politics and the Chairman of the East Asian Studies Program at Brandeis University. He is the author of Salt of the Earth: The Political Origins of Peasant Protest in China (1977) and China Turned Rightside Up: Revolutionary Legitimacy in the Peasant World (1983). He was named a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of California Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies (1974–5) and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (2002) and has won numerous prizes and fellowships, including a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship, a Chang Ching-kuo Foundation International Fellowship, and the United States Institute of Peace Fellowship.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521722306
ISBN 13 
9780521722308
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
412

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