China's Road to Disaster: Mao, Central Politicians and Provincial Leaders in the Great Leap Forward, 1955-59 - Mao, Central Politicians and Provincial Leaders in the Great Leap Forward, 1955-59

This text analyzes the dramatic shifts in Chinese Communist Party economic policy during the mid to late 1950s which eventually resulted in 30 to 45 million deaths through starvation as a result of the failed policies of the Great Leap Forward.

List of contents

Introduction; 1: Opposing Rash Advance, 1956–57 1; 2: The Origins of the Great Leap Forward, 1955–58; 3: Policy Making While Leaping Forward, 1958; 4: The Politics of “Cooling Down,” 1958–59; 5: Conclusion Politics and Players Under Mao, 1955–59; 1: The Lushan Conference, July–August 1959 1; 2: The Retreat From the Great Leap, 1960–62 1

About the author

Frederick C Teiwes, Warren Sun

Summary

This text analyzes the dramatic shifts in Chinese Communist Party economic policy during the mid to late 1950s which eventually resulted in 30 to 45 million deaths through starvation as a result of the failed policies of the Great Leap Forward.

Product details

• Authors: Warren Sun, Sun Warren, Frederick C Teiwes
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.1998
• EAN: 9780765602015
• ISBN: 978-0-7656-0201-5
• No. of pages: 376
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, Political Economy, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Far-left political ideologies and movements, c 1950 to c 1959, Asian History, Central / national / federal government policies, Marxism & Communism, C 1945 To C 1960, Central government policies