Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village
Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village
Author: Ralph A. Thaxton Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/01/2008
Pages: 412
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780521897495
Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 02/26/2009 pg. 38
About the Author
Thaxton Jr, Ralph A.: - Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr, is a Professor of Politics and the Chairman of the East Asian Studies Program at Brandeis University. He is the author of Salt of the Earth: The Political Origins of Peasant Protest in China (1977) and China Turned Rightside Up: Revolutionary Legitimacy in the Peasant World (1983). He was named a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of California Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies (1974-5) and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (2002) and has won numerous prizes and fellowships, including a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship, a Chang Ching-kuo Foundation International Fellowship, and the United States Institute of Peace Fellowship.