Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acronyms ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Re-Imagining the Chinese Peasant: The Historiography on the Great Leap Forward 28
7. Romancing the Leap: Euphoria in the Moment before Disaster 51
8. The Gendered Politics of Woman-Work: Rethinking Radicalism in the Great Leap Forward 72
9. “The Grain Problem Is an Ideological Problem”: Discourses of Hunger in the 1957 Socialist Education Campaign 107
10. On the Distribution System of Large-Scale People’s Communes 130
11. An Introduction to the ABCs of Communization: A Case Study of Macheng County 148
12. Food Augmentation Methods and Food Substitutes during the Great Famine 171
13. Under the Same Maoist Sky: Accounting for Death Rate Discrepancies in Anhui and Jiangxi 197
14. Great Leap City: Surviving the Famine in Tianjin 226
15. How the Great Leap Forward Famine Ended in Rural China: “Administrative Intervention” versus Peasant Resistance 251
16. A Study of Chinese Peasant “Counter-Action” 272
17. Bibliography 295
18. Contributors 316
19. Index 317