Eating Bitterness

Eating Bitterness
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Publisher : UBC Press
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9780774859554
ISBN-13 : 0774859555
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Book Synopsis Eating Bitterness by : Kimberley Ens Manning

Download or read book Eating Bitterness written by Kimberley Ens Manning and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Mao Zedong declared that "not even one person shall die of hunger." Yet some 30 million peasants died of starvation and exhaustion during the Great Leap Forward. Eating Bitterness reveals how men and women in rural and urban settings, from the provincial level to the grassroots, experienced the changes brought on by the party leaders' attempts to modernize China. This landmark volume lifts the curtain of party propaganda to expose the suffering of citizens and the deeply contested nature of state-society relations in Maoist China.


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