《Calamity and Reform in China》是Stanford University Press出版的圖書，作者是Dali Yang
基本介紹
- ISBN：9780804734707
- 作者：Dali Yang
- 出版社：Stanford University Press
- 出版時間：1998年8月1日
- 頁數：368
- 定價：USD 30.95
- 裝幀：Paperback
內容簡介
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 scholarly attention. This is partly because victims of the ensuing famine were inarticulate farmers and partly because many key player...(展開全部) 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 scholarly attention. This is partly because victims of the ensuing famine were inarticulate farmers and partly because many key players in that inglorious era are members of the current elite who tightly guard the archives. Despite these impediments, the author has marshalled an impressive array of historical documents to provide the first comprehensive treatment of the political causes and consequences of the Great Leap Famine. The Famine is important because it furnished the crucial historical motives for dismantling the rural collective institutional structure in post-Mao China two decades later and motivating tens of millions of ordinary Chinese to enact the reforms. Dali L. Yang is Professor and Chairman in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
