Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China
Author | : Ralph Thaxton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : 9780511396182 |
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Author | : Ralph Thaxton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : 9780511396182 |
Author | : Ralph Thaxton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780511396915 |
Author | : Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2008-05-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1139473212 |
This book documents how China's rural people remember the great famine of Maoist rule, which proved to be the worst famine in modern world history. Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., sheds new light on how China's socialist rulers drove rural dwellers to hunger and starvation, on how powerless villagers formed resistance to the corruption and coercion of collectivization, and on how their hidden and contentious acts, both individual and concerted, allowed them to survive and escape the predatory grip of leaders and networks in the thrall of Mao's authoritarian plan for a full-throttle realization of communism – a plan that engendered an unprecedented disaster for rural families. Based on his study of a rural village's memories of the famine, Thaxton argues that these memories persisted long after the events of the famine and shaped rural resistance to the socialist state, both before and after the post-Mao era of reform.
Author | : Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 493 |
Release | : 2016-08-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1316483355 |
Why is contemporary China such a politically contentious place? Relying on the memories of the survivors of the worst catastrophe of Maoist rule and documenting the rise of resistance and protest at the grassroots level, this book explains how the terror, hunger, and loss of the socialist past influences the way in which people in the deep countryside see and resist state power in the reform era up to the present-day repression of the People's Republic of China central government. Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr provides us with a worm's-eye view of an 'unknown China' - a China that cannot easily or fully be understood through made-in-the-academy theories and frameworks of why and how rural people have engaged in contentious politics. This book is a truly unique and disturbing look at how rural people relate to an authoritarian political system in a country that aspires to become a stable world power.
Author | : Ralph Thaxton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2008-05-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0521722306 |
Thaxton argues that the memory of the great famine under Mao shaped villagers' resistance to the socialist state.
Author | : Kevin J. O'Brien |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780415457484 |
Author | : Jonathan Unger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 9781315292052 |
Author | : Yang Su |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2011-02-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1139492462 |
The violence of Mao's China is well known, but its extreme form is not. In 1967 and 1968, during the Cultural Revolution, collective killings were widespread in rural China in the form of public execution. Victims included women, children, and the elderly. This book is the first to systematically document and analyze these atrocities, drawing data from local archives, government documents, and interviews with survivors in two southern provinces. This book extracts from the Chinese case lessons that challenge the prevailing models of genocide and mass killings and contributes to the historiography of the Cultural Revolution, in which scholarship has mainly focused on events in urban areas.
Author | : Joshua Eisenman |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2018-04-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0231546750 |
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.
Author | : Michel Oksenberg |
Publisher | : U of M Center for Chinese Studies |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2020-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0472038354 |
The Chinese Communist system was from its very inception based on an inherent contradiction and tension, and the Cultural Revolution is the latest and most violent manifestation of that contradiction. Built into the very structure of the system was an inner conflict between the desiderata, the imperatives, and the requirements that technocratic modernization on the one hand and Maoist values and strategy on the other. The Cultural Revolution collects four papers prepared for a research conference on the topic convened by the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies in March 1968. Michel Oksenberg opens the volume by examining the impact of the Cultural Revolution on occupational groups including peasants, industrial managers and workers, intellectuals, students, party and government officials, and the military. Carl Riskin is concerned with the economic effects of the revolution, taking up production trends in agriculture and industry, movements in foreign trade, and implications of Masoist economic policies for China's economic growth. Robert A. Scalapino turns to China's foreign policy behavior during this period, arguing that Chinese Communists in general, and Mao in particular, formed foreign policy with a curious combination of cosmic, utopian internationalism and practical ethnocentrism rooted both in Chinese tradition and Communist experience. Ezra F. Vogel closes the volume by exploring the structure of the conflict, the struggles between factions, and the character of those factions.