Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village

by Ralph A. Thaxton Jr. and Ralph A. Thaxton Jr

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521897491
• ISBN13: 9780521897495
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"