{"product_id":"eating-bitterness-9780774817271","title":"Eating Bitterness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the Chinese Communist Party assumed power, Mao Zedong declared that not even one person shall die of hunger. A little over a decade later, China was in the midst of the most devastating famine in modern history. Between 1957 and 1962  the years commonly associated with Mao's Great Leap Forward  some 30 million peasants died of starvation and exhaustion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than exploring why party leaders stumbled so badly in their attempts to modernize China, the contributors to this landmark collection draw on newly available sources to show how men and women in rural and urban settings experienced the changes during this period. \u003cem\u003eEating Bitterness\u003c\/em\u003e lifts the curtain of officially propagated images of mass mobilization to expose the uneven and deeply contested nature of state-society relations in Maoist China. It also illuminates the role that history writing and memory have played in shaping narratives of the recent past. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn important collection that contributes both new perspectives and rich data. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the Great Leap Famine and the early years of the PRC.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Kathryn Egerton-Tarpley * The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol 71, Issue 2 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \/ \u003cem\u003eKimberley Ens Manning and Felix Wemheuer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Re-Imagining the Chinese Peasant: The Historiography on the Great Leap Forward \/ \u003cem\u003eSusanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Romancing the Leap: Euphoria in the Moment before Disaster \/ \u003cem\u003eRichard King\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 The Gendered Politics of Woman-Work: Rethinking Radicalism in the Great Leap Forward \/ \u003cem\u003eKimberley Ens Manning\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 “The Grain Problem Is an Ideological Problem”: Discourses of Hunger in the 1957 Socialist Education Campaign \/ \u003cem\u003eFelix Wemheuer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 On the Distribution System of Large-Scale People’s Communes \/ \u003cem\u003eXin Yi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 An Introduction to the ABCs of Communization: A Case Study of Macheng County \/ \u003cem\u003eWang Yanni\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Food Augmentation Methods and Food Substitutes during the Great Famine \/ \u003cem\u003eGao Hua\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Under the Same Maoist Sky: Accounting for Death Rate Discrepancies in Anhui and Jiangxi \/ \u003cem\u003eChen Yixin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Great Leap City: Surviving the Famine in Tianjin \/ \u003cem\u003eJeremy Brown\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 How the Great Leap Forward Famine Ended in Rural China: “Administrative Intervention” versus Peasant Resistance \/ \u003cem\u003eRalph A. Thaxton Jr.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 A Study of Chinese Peasant “Counter-Action” \/ \u003cem\u003eGao Wangling\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404919742807,"sku":"9780774817271","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eating-bitterness-9780774817271","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}