Mao''s Crusade - Politics and Policy Implementation in China''s Great Leap Forward

Zusatztext Chan shows how Mao was able to dominate policymaking and to mobilize lower-rung cadres and ordinary citizens into his own modality of madness, and shows how all this impacted on the polity and society. He does all of this in a splendid manner, providing valuable insights into how recipients of the Great Leap resisted, or attempted to resist, Mao's folly. Informationen zum Autor Alfred L. Chan received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto. He has taught at the University of Toronto, McGill University, and Carleton University. Currently he is an associate professor of political science at Huron College University, University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is also a Research Associate of the Joint Centre on Asia--Pacific Studies, York University, University of Toronto. Klappentext Chan's exhaustive research, using new material made available in the post-Mao era as well as archives from the 1950s and 1960s, has yielded novel insights into Mao, central decision-making, and policy implementation in the communist hierarchy. Zusammenfassung This study of China's Great Leap Forward documents how Mao Zedong dominated and manipulated the policy process. The author discusses how the central ministries and the province of Guangdong implemented radical policies such as the backyard furnace campaign and the establishment of the People's Communes. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction: The Great Leap Forward (1958-1960) 2: Central Policy Formulation Under a Dominant Mao 3: The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural and Agricultural Policies in 1958 4: The Ministry of Metallurgy and the Policies of Industrial Development in 1958 5: Agricultural and Rural Policies in Guangdong, 1958 6: Policies of Industrial Development in Guangdong, 1958 7: Conclusion

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• Authors: Alfred Chan, Alfred L. Chan, Alfred L. (Huron College University Chan, Chan Alfred L.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2001
• EAN: 9780199244065
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924406-5
• No. of pages: 334
• Series: Studies on Contemporary China; Studies on Contemporary China
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, Political Economy, c 1950 to c 1959, Asian History, Central / national / federal government policies, C 1945 To C 1960, Central government policies