... treated as a "black box." In examining the origin of one of the most important episodes in the history of the People's Republic the Great Leap Forward (GLF) David Bachman attempts to provide insights about how one might disassemble the black box. According to Bachman, the GLF did not spring full-blown...

.... By RODERICK MACFARQUHAR. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983- xvii, 470 pp. Chinese Names, Illustrations, Appendix, Notes, Bibliographic Note, Bibliography, Index. $35. Until now there has been no widely available study of the Great Leap Forward (GLF). The second volume of Roderick MacFarquhar's trilogy...

... of the continuing viability of spatial forms and functions not always justified by the history they recount. Great Leap Forward (GLF), based on 1996 fieldwork by Harvard School of Design students led by architect Rem Koolhaas, is a study of how the new urbanism of the Pearl River Delta region (PRD) of China...

..., Illustrations, Appendix, Notes, Bibliographic Note, Bibliography, Index. $35. Until now there has been no widely available study of the Great Leap Forward (GLF). The second volume of Roderick MacFarquhar's trilogy on the origins of the Cultural Revolution is the first to fill this glaring gap in the literature...

... Dikötter ( Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962 [New York: Walker & Co., 2010]). Three of the many accomplishments of Eating Bitterness stand out. First, as the first work to bring mainland Chinese and Western scholarship on the Great Leap Famine (GLF...

... peasants and workers in the socialist transformation of Chinese society without resorting to coercion or repression. In their narrative, the Great Leap Forward (GLF) of 1958 appears as an arbitrary and inexplicable deviation from the path of rational socialist construction for which Mao Zedong himself must...

... suspect, at least for the GLF. He calls Deng Xiaoping "a hard-boiled pragmatist" (p. 121), but in this and his previous volume, MacFarquhar has shown that Deng solidly backed Mao. Moreover, what does pragmatism mean in the context of the GLF? MacFarquhar also calls Chen Yun the "least assertive" member...

.... In their narrative, the Great Leap Forward (GLF) of 1958 appears as an arbitrary and inexplicable deviation from the path of rational socialist construction for which Mao Zedong himself must ultimately be held accountable. Domenach's study of the origins of the GLF in Henan, "a representative province" that PRC...

... the discussion and improper conduct by social GLF when, he believes, a divergence occurred pressure. Both methods existed side by side with commitment to the revolution overriding with the formal legal code predominating until commitment to nationalism. This divergence 1959 and again in the early sixties...

... were even less prepared for the radical changes in the organization of their productive activities which accompanied the GLF and the establishment of people's communes, argues Volkova.3 Designed to succeed in raising production where collectivization had failed, these new policies launched suddenly...

... rather than self-sufficiency to the communes and nation, the Nine Man Subcommittee was deactivated and many commune health programs ended; the Public Health Ministry moved to protect municipal facilities from further deterioration. Although the rural orientations of many medical policies during the GLF...

...Edward Friedman Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization . Edited by Roy Starrs . Richmond, Surrey : Curzon Press , 2001 . 393 pp. $55.00 (cloth). 1014 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Some will be troubled by GLF's...

..., then, the Great Leap Forward was the outcome of headstrong local leaders like Wu Zhipu availing themselves of a leftward shift in central policy to pursue their own political ambitions, whatever the cost to the people in whose name they pretended to rule. In more general terms, Domenach argues that the GLF...

... of the commune. By political economy I mean the interplay between the revolutionary tasks of transforming social structure and human attitude and the developmental tasks of increasing production and income.1 The process of change in the commune can be observed in several periods: (1) the Great Leap Forward (GLF...

... context is particularly important in this instance of institutional failure and attempted resuscitation. The history of the CCP can be written in terms of its efforts to develop norms and procedures that run counter to the culture it seeks to transform. As discipline and confidence after the GLF eroded...