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

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Thaxton, Jr

 
9780521897495: Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China Hardback: 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: 0521897491 ISBN 13: 9780521897495
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Sinopsis

Thaxton analyzes how the local Communist Party agents of the Mao-led central government imposed the famine of the Great Leap Forward on one rural village, how villagers remember this traumatic experience, and how they engaged in resistance to escape the famine and the predatory rule it reflected.

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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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Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2008
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0521897491
ISBN 13 
9780521897495
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Número de páginas
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ISBN 10:  0521722306 ISBN 13:  9780521722308
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2008
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