19 The Great Leap Forward 1958–1960

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps xiii
4. Tables xiv
5. Preface to the Enlarged Edition xv
6. Preface to the Original Edition xvii
7. Introduction: Approaches to Understanding China’s History 1
8. Part One: Rise and Decline of the Imperial Autocracy
9. 1 Origins: The Discoveries of Archaeology 27
10. 2 The First Unification: Imperial Confucianism 46
11. 3 Reunification in the Buddhist Age 72
12. 4 China’s Greatest Age: Northern and Southern Song 88
13. 5 The Paradox of Song China and Inner Asia 108
14. 6 Government in the Ming Dynasty 128
15. 7 The Qing Success Story 143
16. PART TWO Late Imperial China 1600–1911
17. Introduction 163
18. 8 The Paradox of Growth without Development 167
19. 9 Frontier Unrest and the Opening of China 187
20. 10 Rebellion and Restoration 206
21. 11 Early Modernization and the Decline of Qing Power 217
22. 12 The Republican Revolution 1901–1916 235
23. PART THREE The Republic of China 1912–1949
24. 13 The Quest for a Chinese Civil Society 255
25. 14 The Nationalist Revolution and the Nanjing Government 279
26. 15 The Second Coming of the Chinese Communist Party 294
27. 16 China’s War of Resistance 1937–1945 312
28. 17 The Civil War and the Nationalists on Taiwan 331
29. PART FOUR The People’s Republic of China
30. 18 Establishing Control of State and Countryside 343
31. 19 The Great Leap Forward 1958–1960 368
32. 20 The Cultural Revolution 1966–1976 383
33. 21 The Post-Mao Reform Era 406
34. Epilogue: China at the Start of the Twenty-first Century 457
35. Note on Romanization and Citation 472
36. Suggested Reading 473
37. Publisher’s Note 529
38. Illustration Credits 531
39. Author Index 535
40. General Index 545