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

by Teiwes; Frederick C

• ISBN13: 9780765602015
• ISBN10: 0765602016
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781315502793
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-09-30
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

This book boldly challenges existing analyses of 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.

Table of Contents

Tables and Photographs	viii	(1)
Abbreviations	ix	(2)
Preface	xi	(4)
Chronology of Important Events, 1955-62	xv
Introduction	5	(15)
Chapter 1 Opposing Rash Advance, 1956-57	20	(33)
Chapter 2 The Origins of the Great Leap Forward, 1955-58	53	(30)
Chapter 3 Policy Making While Leaping Forward, 1958	83	(36)
Chapter 4 The Politics of "Cooling Down," 1958-59	119	(58)
Conclusion Politics and Players under Mao, 1955-59	177	(25)
Epilogue 1 The Lushan Conference, July-August 1959	202	(11)
Epilogue 2 The Retreat from the Great Leap, 1960-62	213	(20)
Appendix 1 Participants in Party Conferences, January 1958-April 1959	233	(12)
Appendix 2 Self-criticisms by the Architects of Opposing Rash Advance, January-May 1958	245	(13)
Annotated Bibliography of Major Sources	258	(13)
Bibliography	271	(30)
Index	301	(19)
About the Authors	320