Mao’s crusade: politics and policy implementation in China’s great leap forward

Alfred L. Chan9780199244065, 0199244065

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 :
Header……Page 1
Dedication……Page 6
Preface……Page 8
Contents……Page 12
Abbreviations……Page 13
1 – Introduction: The Great Leap Forward……Page 16
2 – Central Policy Formulation Under a Dominant Mao……Page 28
3 – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural and Agricultural Policies in 1958……Page 122
4 – The Ministry of Metallurgy and the Policies of Industrial Development in 1958……Page 171
5 – Agricultural and Rural Policies in the Guangdong, 1958……Page 211
6 – Policies of Industrial Development in Guangdong, 1958……Page 258
7 – Conclusion: Policy-making in a Mao-dominated System……Page 293
Bibliography……Page 306
Glossary……Page 323
Index……Page 324