China S Road To Disaster Mao Central Politicians And Provincial Leaders In The Great Leap Forward 1955 59

Author : Frederick C Teiwes,Warren Sun
Publisher : Routledge
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Category : Political Science
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China's Road to Disaster: Mao, Central Politicians and Provincial Leaders in the Great Leap Forward, 1955-59 by Frederick C Teiwes,Warren Sun Pdf

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. Teiwes examines both the substance and the process of economic policy-making in that period, explaining how the rational policies of opposing rash advance in 1956-57 gave way to the fanciful policies of the Great Leap, and assessing responsibility for the failure to adjust adequately those policies even as signs of disaster began to reach higher level decision makers. In telling this story, Teiwes focuses on key participants in the process throughout both "rational" and "utopian" phases - Mao, other top leaders, central economic bureaucracies and local party leaders. The analysis rejects both of the existing influential explanations in the field, the long dominant power politics approach focusing on alleged clashes within the top leadership, and David Bachman's recent institutional interpretation of the origins of the Great Leap. Instead, this study presents a detailed picture of an exceptionally Mao-dominated process, where no other actor challenged his position, where the boldest step any actor took was to try and influence his preferences, and where the system in effect became paralyzed while Mao kept changing signals as disaster unfolded.

Author : Frederick C. Teiwes,Warren Sun
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 378 pages
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Release : 1998-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0765637766

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China's Road to Disaster by Frederick C. Teiwes,Warren Sun Pdf

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. Teiwes examines both the substance and the process of economic policy-making in that period, explaining how the rational policies of opposing rash advance in 1956-57 gave way to the fanciful policies of the Great Leap, and assessing responsibility for the failure to adjust adequately those policies even as signs of disaster began to reach higher level decision makers. In telling this story, Teiwes focuses on key participants in the process throughout both "rational" and "utopian" phases - Mao, other top leaders, central economic bureaucracies and local party leaders. The analysis rejects both of the existing influential explanations in the field, the long dominant power politics approach focusing on alleged clashes within the top leadership, and David Bachman's recent institutional interpretation of the origins of the Great Leap. Instead, this study presents a detailed picture of an exceptionally Mao-dominated process, where no other actor challenged his position, where the boldest step any actor took was to try and influence his preferences, and where the system in effect became paralyzed while Mao kept changing signals as disaster unfolded.

Author : Jake Lin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
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Release : 2019-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030239022

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Chinese Politics and Labor Movements by Jake Lin Pdf

This book brings a radically new voice to the debate in the field of Chinese politics and labor movement. Using a psychological and cognitive approach, the author examines workers and activists’ everyday interpretation of the source of their problems, their prospect of labor movements, and their sense of solidarity. The project shows how workers themselves have become a part of the apparatus of state repression and argues that Chinese workers have not acquired sufficient cognitive strength to become the much hoped-for agent for political change, which hinders labor activism from developing into a sustainable social movement. Multidisciplinary in its approach, the monograph provides analysis of Chinese politics, labor studies, international political economy, social movements, and contentious politics.

Author : William A. Joseph
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 705 pages
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Release : 2024
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197683200

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Politics in China by William A. Joseph Pdf

Politics in China is an authoritative introduction to how the world's second most populous nation and rapidly rising global power is governed today. Written by leading China scholars, each chapter offers an accessible overview of a key topic in Chinese politics. The fourth edition of Politics in China has been thoroughly updated and includes a new chapter on the rise and rule of Xi Jinping. It is essential reading not only for students studying the PRC, but also for any reader interested in learning how China has evolved in recent times, how its political system works, and about the most important challenges it faces in years ahead.

Author : Alfred L. Chan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 338 pages
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Release : 2001-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191554018

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Mao's Crusade by Alfred L. Chan Pdf

During 1957 and 1958 Mao was seized by a vision that the Chinese economy could develop rapidly in leaps and bounds by relying on intuition and mass spontaneity. As a consequence, he single-handedly launched a colossal mobilization campaign called the Great Leap Forward, which featured many radical policy innovations, including the people's communes. This book is the first in-depth and original study of policy formulation and implementation during the Leap to link the roles of Mao, the central leaders, the ministries, and the province of Guangdong. Rejecting the theory that the Leap was an outcome of bureaucratic politics and competition, the study establishes beyond doubt the supreme and dominant position of Mao in initiating and commanding the Leap. Alfred L. Chan goes further than propounding a Mao-dominant model by documenting the strategic and tactical moves made by Mao in order to neutralize all opposition and to carry the day. He also discusses in detail the policy roles and input of other top leaders on whom the improvising Mao relied to feed his imagination and to flesh out his policies. In the chapters on the implementation of the Leap, Dr Chan explores how the ministries of Metallurgy and Agriculture were transformed from bureaucratic agencies into agents of mobilization, and how impossible targets forced them to keep up appearances by focussing on the rituals of mass mobilization. Similarly, other chapters on Guangdong show the simultaneously fervent, ritualistic, and desperate attempts to implement every hunch and intuition emanating from the centre. Exhaustive research using new material made available in the post-Mao era, as well as archives from the 1950s and 1960s, has yielded novel and original insights into the leader Mao, central decision-making, and policy implementation in the communist hierarchy.

Author : Bertil Lintner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 348 pages
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Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199091638

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China’s India War by Bertil Lintner Pdf

The Sino-Indian War of 1962 delivered a crushing defeat to India: not only did the country suffer a loss of lives and a heavy blow to its pride, the world began to see India as the provocateur of the war, with China ‘merely defending’ its territory. This perception that China was largely the innocent victim of Nehru’s hostile policies was put forth by journalist Neville Maxwell in his book India’s China War, which found readers in many opinion makers, including Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. For far too long, Maxwell’s narrative, which sees India as the aggressor and China as the victim, has held court. Nearly 50 years after Maxwell’s book, Bertil Lintner’s China’s India War puts the ‘border dispute’ into its rightful perspective. Lintner argues that China began planning the war as early as 1959 and proposes that it was merely a small move in the larger strategic game that China was playing to become a world player—one that it continues to play even today.

Author : Sebastian Heilmann,Elizabeth J. Perry
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 336 pages
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Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684171163

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Mao's Invisible Hand by Sebastian Heilmann,Elizabeth J. Perry Pdf

"Observers have been predicting the demise of China’s political system since Mao Zedong’s death over thirty years ago. The Chinese Communist state, however, seems to have become increasingly adept at responding to challenges ranging from leadership succession and popular unrest to administrative reorganization, legal institutionalization, and global economic integration. What political techniques and procedures have Chinese policymakers employed to manage the unsettling impact of the fastest sustained economic expansion in world history?As the authors of these essays demonstrate, China’s political system allows for more diverse and flexible input than would be predicted from its formal structures. Many contemporary methods of governance have their roots in techniques of policy generation and implementation dating to the revolution and early PRC—techniques that emphasize continual experimentation. China’s long revolution had given rise to this guerrilla-style decisionmaking as a way of dealing creatively with pervasive uncertainty. Thus, even in a post-revolutionary PRC, the invisible hand of Chairman Mao—tamed, tweaked, and transformed—plays an important role in China’s adaptive governance."

Author : Alfred Chan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : China
ISBN : 138303799X

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Mao's Crusade by Alfred Chan Pdf

This text is a study of policy formulation and implementation during the Great Leap Forward, linking the roles of Mao, the central leaders, ministries, and the province of Guangdong. It asserts Mao's dominance in policy formation at the time.

Author : John Wagner Givens
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351350662

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An Analysis of Frank Dikotter's Mao's Great Famine by John Wagner Givens Pdf

"The power of Frank Dikötter's ground-breaking work on the disaster that followed China's attempted 'Great Leap Forwar©d'; lies not in the detail of his evidence (though that shows that Mao's fumbled attempt at rapid industrialization probably cost 45 million Chinese lives). It stems from the exceptional reasoning skills that allowed Dikötter to turn years of researching in obscure Chinese archives into a compelling narrative of disaster, and above all to link two subjects that had been treated as distinct by most of his predecessors: the extent of the crisis in the countryside, and the actions (hence the responsibility) of the senior Chinese leadership. In Dikötter's view, ultimate responsibility for the catastrophe lies at the door of Mao Zedong himself; the Chairman conceived and ordered the policies that led to the famine, and he did nothing to reverse them or limit the damage that was being wrought when evidence for their disastrous impact reached him. Dikötter's ability to persuade his readers of the fundamental truth of these arguments--despite his admission that his access to sources was necessarily limited and incomplete--together with the clear structure of his presentation combine to produce a work that has had enormous influence on perceptions of Mao and of the Great Leap Forward itself."--Provided by publisher

Author : Ralph Thaxton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521722308

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Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China by Ralph Thaxton Pdf

Thaxton argues that the memory of the great famine under Mao shaped villagers' resistance to the socialist state.

Author : Frederick C Teiwes,Warren Sun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315502793

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China's Road to Disaster: Mao, Central Politicians and Provincial Leaders in the Great Leap Forward, 1955-59 by Frederick C Teiwes,Warren Sun Pdf

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. Teiwes examines both the substance and the process of economic policy-making in that period, explaining how the rational policies of opposing rash advance in 1956-57 gave way to the fanciful policies of the Great Leap, and assessing responsibility for the failure to adjust adequately those policies even as signs of disaster began to reach higher level decision makers. In telling this story, Teiwes focuses on key participants in the process throughout both "rational" and "utopian" phases - Mao, other top leaders, central economic bureaucracies and local party leaders. The analysis rejects both of the existing influential explanations in the field, the long dominant power politics approach focusing on alleged clashes within the top leadership, and David Bachman's recent institutional interpretation of the origins of the Great Leap. Instead, this study presents a detailed picture of an exceptionally Mao-dominated process, where no other actor challenged his position, where the boldest step any actor took was to try and influence his preferences, and where the system in effect became paralyzed while Mao kept changing signals as disaster unfolded.

Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408814444

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Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikötter Pdf

A groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine: winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize 2011 'A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Harrowing and brilliant' Ben Macintyre 'A critical contribution to Chinese history' Wall Street Journal Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the West in less than fifteen years. It led to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known. Dikotter's extraordinary research within Chinese archives brings together for the first time what happened in the corridors of power with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. This groundbreaking account definitively recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015073568639

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Historical Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Monte Palmer
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0875814271

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Comparative Politics by Monte Palmer Pdf

This text integrates perspectives which stress economic, cultural, and international factors in the shaping of political events with a traditional comparative emphasis on institutions, elites, parties, groups, and mass behavior. It focuses on defining issues of the coming decade: human rights, the environment, economic reform, and social equity. Includes bandw photos. For this second edition, theoretical material is simplified, and presentation is shorter and more focused. There is a new chapter on Mexico, and a glossary. Palmer teaches political science and directs the Center for Arab and Middle East Studies at the American University of Beirut. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Edward Earl Rice
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520021991

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Mao's Way by Edward Earl Rice Pdf

"Sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley." Bibliography: p. [574]-578.