...Ramon H. Myers Aux Origines du Grand Bond en Avant: Le cas d'une province Chinoise, 1956–1958 [The origins of the Great Leap Forward: A conjuncture in a Chinese province, 1956–1958] . By Jean-Luc Domenach . Paris : Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Presses de la...

...David Bachman The Origins of the Cultural Revolution 2: The Great Leap Forward, 1958–1960 . By Roderick MacFarquhar . New York : Columbia University Press , 1983 . xvii, 470 pp. Chinese Names, Illustrations, Appendix, Notes, Bibliographic Note, Bibliography, Index. $35. Copyright ©...

...Shaoguang Wang Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China: The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward . By David Bachman . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1991 . xxii, 262 pp. $42.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Ralph C. Croizier A Great Leap Forward for Modern Chinese Art History? Recent Publications in China and the United States A Review Article RALPH C. CROIZIER Art and Artists of Twentieth Century China. By MICHAEL SULLIVAN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 354 pp. $65.00. Ershi Shiji...

... Leap Forward. Edited by CHUA JUDY CHUNG, JEFFRY INABA, R E M KOOLHAAS, and SZE T S U N G L E O N G . Harvard Design School Project on the City. Koln: Taschen, 2001. 800 pp. $49.99 (cloth). By 2015, says the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements' Cities in a Globalizing World: Global Report...

...Steven I. Levine The Origins of the Great Leap Forward: The Case of One Chinese Province . By Jean-Luc Domenach . Translated by A. M. Berrett . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1995 . xvii, 212 pp. $54.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK...

...Weijie Song The Great Leap Backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years . By Lingchei Letty Chen . Amherst, N.Y. : Cambria Press , 2020 . 304 pp. ISBN: 9781604979923 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Lingchei Letty Chen's insightful...

...He Li Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change since the Great Leap Famine . By Dali L. Yang . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1996 . 351 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 494 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Graham Young The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao: From the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward . Edited by Roderick MacFarquhar , Timothy Cheek , and Eugene Wu . Cambridge, Mass., and London : Council on East Asian Studies/Harvard University , 1989 . xxiii, 561 pp. $15.00...

...Lindsay of Birker The Chinese Communes. A documentary review and analysis of the “Great Leap Forward.” . By Geoffrey Hudson , A. V. Sherman and A. Zauberman . London : Soviet Survey , 1959 . 79 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 96 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Joseph Tse-Hei Lee Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village . By Ralph A. Thaxton Jr . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2008 . xxii , 383 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $27.99 (paper). Copyright...

...Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley Eating Bitterness: New Perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and Famine . Edited by Kimberley Ens Manning and Felix Wemheuer . Vancouver : UBC Press , 2011 . viii, 321 pp. $90.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012...

... was encapsulated in the Great Leap Forward-era film on the Opium War, Lin Zexu , which drew a contrast between patriotic Sanliyuan villagers and traitorous ruling groups in the capital city. If the brave peasants would join with all patriotic Chinese and not fear to die, then, under correct leadership, the foreign...

...Eddy U Abstract Through an analysis of Third Sister Liu , a popular musical of the early 1960s, this article illustrates how the Chinese Communist Party mobilized state and society to express disparaging ideas about the intellectual during the Great Leap Forward. The Chinese intellectual...

... victims as heroes sacrificing for the nation mark departures from late-imperial responses to disaster, but foreshadow features of the devastating Mao-era Great Leap Famine of 1958–62. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 Stated Yu: “The inundating waters seemed to assail...

... at a very high level throughout the book, perhaps even surpassing Schram's previous achievements in this regard. Apart from minor questions and narrow matters of nuance, I would question only one albeit, quite major aspect of Schram's analysis: the issue of the connections between the Great Leap Forward...

... of political, economic, and military forces. For example, the failure of the Great Leap Forward demonstrated the power of the bourgeoisie, both outside and inside the Chinese Communist Party, to administer severe if temporary setbacks to the inexorable advance of socialism. Hiniker traces the original cleavage...

.... This book is about the patterns of and prospects for this resistance, and its meaning for all of us. A "Great Leap Forward management system" soon developed, centering around worker participation in management; cadre participation in productive labor; and triple-combination teams of workers, cadres...

... precisely) to quantify the degree of unemployment and underemployment in the Chinese non-agricultural economy. Hoffman discusses how the Great Leap Forward attempted to deal with this problem, and some of the reasons why the Great Leap failed to solve it. The next chapter discusses labor mobility...

... to disaster has great potential for undergraduate teaching, and, if the book's writing were more accessible, it could be used as a textbook. The summary paragraph of the Great Leap chapter, for example, reads this way: On implicit transmission of the famine I have argued that it is manifest in a negation...