The Famine In China

Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802779281

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Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikötter Pdf

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China. "Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives." So opens Frank Dikötter's riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives has long been restricted to all but the most trusted historians. A new archive law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that "fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era." Dikötter makes clear, as nobody has before, that far from being the program that would lift the country among the world's superpowers and prove the power of Communism, as Mao imagined, the Great Leap Forward transformed the country in the other direction. It became the site not only of "one of the most deadly mass killings of human history,"--at least 45 million people were worked, starved, or beaten to death--but also of "the greatest demolition of real estate in human history," as up to one-third of all housing was turned into rubble). The experiment was a catastrophe for the natural world as well, as the land was savaged in the maniacal pursuit of steel and other industrial accomplishments. In a powerful mesghing of exhaustive research in Chinese archives and narrative drive, Dikötter for the first time links up what happened in the corridors of power-the vicious backstabbing and bullying tactics that took place among party leaders-with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. His magisterial account recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.

Author : Xun Zhou
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300175189

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The Great Famine in China, 1958-1962 by Xun Zhou Pdf

Drawing on previously closed archives that have since been made inaccessible again, this volume contains the most crucial primary documents concerning the fate of the Chinese peasantry between 1957 and 1962, covering everything from cannibalism and selective killing to mass murder.

Author : Songlin Yang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811616617

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Telling the Truth: China’s Great Leap Forward, Household Registration and the Famine Death Tally by Songlin Yang Pdf

This book discusses what is often called the “Great Leap Famine”, which occurred in China during the years from 1959 to 1961. Scholarly consensus suggests that 30 million Chinese perished. Yang Songlin’s book provides an evidence-based, systematic and substantial rebuff, concluding that a much smaller number of deaths can be verified. This book is of interest to scholars of China and Chinese development and politics, economists, and demographers.

Author : Yang Jisheng
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780374277932

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Tombstone by Yang Jisheng Pdf

An account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe.

Author : C J Barker
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781835740682

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Hungry Ghosts by C J Barker Pdf

The lives of Vic Woods and Ruth Wolfe, working-class teenagers from Liverpool and London, are profoundly disrupted by the arrival of World War II. Ruth’s journey leads her to aerial photographic interpretation, though her aspirations for advancement are denied, while Vic’s wartime experiences with bomber command haunt him long after the war is over. Their post-war marriage and tumultuous relationship with their son, James, make for a gripping narrative of trauma, conflict and, ultimately, love. Set against the backdrop of World War II and the social upheaval of the late 1960s, Hungry Ghosts transports readers into the drama of two pivotal eras in history, exploring the intergenerational impact of war, particularly on the intricate relationships between fathers and sons. Hungry Ghosts is not just a war story; it’s a timeless exploration of family bonds and the indelible scars left by war.

Author : Pierre Fuller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684176021

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Famine Relief in Warlord China by Pierre Fuller Pdf

Famine Relief in Warlord China is a reexamination of disaster responses during the greatest ecological crisis of the pre-Nationalist Chinese republic. In 1920–1921, drought and ensuing famine devastated more than 300 counties in five northern provinces, leading to some 500,000 deaths. Long credited to international intervention, the relief effort, Pierre Fuller shows, actually began from within Chinese social circles. Indigenous action from the household to the national level, modeled after Qing-era relief protocol, sustained the lives of millions of the destitute in Beijing, in the surrounding districts of Zhili (Hebei) Province, and along the migrant and refugee trail in Manchuria, all before joint foreign–Chinese international relief groups became a force of any significance. Using district gazetteers, stele inscriptions, and the era’s vibrant Chinese press, Fuller reveals how a hybrid civic sphere of military authorities working with the public mobilized aid and coordinated migrant movement within stricken communities and across military domains. Ultimately, the book’s spotlight on disaster governance in northern China in 1920 offers new insights into the social landscape just before the region’s descent, over the next decade, into incessant warfare, political struggle, and finally the normalization of disaster itself.

Author : Kimberley Ens Manning,Felix Wemheuer
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774859554

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Eating Bitterness by Kimberley Ens Manning,Felix Wemheuer Pdf

When the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Mao Zedong declared that "not even one person shall die of hunger." Yet some 30 million peasants died of starvation and exhaustion during the Great Leap Forward. Eating Bitterness reveals how men and women in rural and urban settings, from the provincial level to the grassroots, experienced the changes brought on by the party leaders' attempts to modernize China. This landmark volume lifts the curtain of party propaganda to expose the suffering of citizens and the deeply contested nature of state-society relations in Maoist China.

Author : Dali L. Yang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804734707

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Calamity and Reform in China by Dali L. Yang Pdf

This is the first book-length treatment of the political causes and consequences of the Great Leap Famine (1959-61), one of the worst tragedies in human history.

Author : Frank Dikotter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1407495755

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Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikotter Pdf

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. It lead to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known.

Author : Paul Richard Bohr
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684171798

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Famine in China and the Missionary by Paul Richard Bohr Pdf

The most disastrous famine in recent Chinese history took place between 1876 and 1879, afflicting all five provinces of North China [Shantung, Chihli, Honan, Shensi, and Shansi] and claiming no fewer than nine and a half million human lives . The hunger, pestilence, and violence brought about by the famine presented an overwhelming challenge to government and foreign relief efforts. Despite these obstacles, however, Timothy Richard of the Baptist Missionary Society succeeded in organizing an effective, systematic scheme of relief distribution in several districts of Shantung and Shansi. His work on the scene in turn stimulated the foreign community to organize the China Famine Relief Fund Committee, and his method of rendering aid set the pattern of foreign almsgiving which did much to ease the suffering of thousands. This study analyzes Richard’s role in the North China famine and evaluates his contribution to the relief effort. It concentrates on Richard’s initial distribution attempts in Shantung, 1876-1877, and his more extensive activities in Shansi, 1877-1879. By comparing Richard’s relief measures with those of the Ch’ing government as well as with those of the foreign distributors supported by the China Famine Relief Fund Committee, the study attempts to describe the various approaches to the problem of famine relief and to illuminate the many difficulties encountered by Chinese and foreigners in the relief work. Richard emerged from the calamity convinced that he must urge China’s leaders to eradicate the basic causes of famine and similar natural disasters and to elevate the physical as well as the spiritual welfare of the rural masses.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : China
ISBN : UCBK:C052258132

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The Famine in China by Anonim Pdf

Author : Felix Wemheuer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300206784

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Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union by Felix Wemheuer Pdf

During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this rigorous and thoughtful study, Felix Wemheuer analyzes the historical and political roots of these socialist-era famines, in which overambitious industrial programs endorsed by Stalin and Mao Zedong created greater disasters than those suffered under prerevolutionary regimes. Focusing on famine as a political tool, Wemheuer systematically exposes how conflicts about food among peasants, urban populations, and the socialist state resulted in the starvation death of millions. A major contribution to Chinese and Soviet history, this provocative analysis examines the long-term effects of the great famines on the relationship between the state and its citizens and argues that the lessons governments learned from the catastrophes enabled them to overcome famine in their later decades of rule.

Author : Micah S. Muscolino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107071568

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The Ecology of War in China by Micah S. Muscolino Pdf

This book explores the interplay between war and the environment in Henan Province, a hotly contested frontline territory that endured massive environmental destruction and human disruption during the conflict between China and Japan that raged during World War II. In a desperate attempt to block Japan's military advance, Chinese Nationalist armies under Chiang Kai-shek broke the Yellow River's dikes in Henan in June 1938, resulting in devastating floods that persisted until after the war's end. Greater catastrophe struck Henan in 1942-1943, when famine took some two million lives and displaced millions more. Focusing on these war-induced disasters and their aftermath, this book conceptualizes the ecology of war in terms of energy flows through and between militaries, societies, and environments. Ultimately, Micah Muscolino argues that efforts to procure and exploit nature's energy in various forms shaped the choices of generals, the fates of communities, and the trajectory of environmental change in North China.

Author : Xun Zhou
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300184044

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Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962 by Xun Zhou Pdf

A powerful account of China’s Great Famine as told through the voices of those who survived it

Author : China Famine Relief Fund (London)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000625773

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The Famine in China by China Famine Relief Fund (London) Pdf