Mao’s Crusade: Politics and Policy Implementation in China’s Great Leap Forward

Alfred L. Chan9780199244065, 0-19-924406-5

Chan’s exhaustive research, using new material made available in the post-Mao era as well as archives from the 1950s and 1960s, has yielded novel insights into Mao, central decision-making, and policy implementation in the communist hierarchy.

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Table of contents :
Mao’s Crusade: Politics and Policy Implementation in China’s Great Leap Forward……Page 1
Dedication……Page 5
Preface……Page 7
Contents……Page 11
Abbreviations……Page 12
1 – Introduction: The Great Leap Forward……Page 15
2 – Central Policy Formulation Under a Dominant Mao……Page 27
3 – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural and Agricultural Policies in 1958……Page 121
4 – The Ministry of Metallurgy and the Policies of Industrial Development in 1958……Page 170
5 – Agricultural and Rural Policies in the Guangdong, 1958……Page 210
6 – Policies of Industrial Development in Guangdong, 1958……Page 257
7 – Conclusion: Policy-making in a Mao-dominated System……Page 292
Bibliography……Page 305
Glossary……Page 322
Index……Page 323