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The coming of the cataclysm, 1961-1966 [electronic resource] / Roderick MacFarquhar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacFarquhar, Roderick.
- Series:
- MacFarquhar, Roderik. Origins of the Cultural Revolution (Oxford, England) ; 3.
- The origins of the cultural revolution ; 3
- Studies of the East Asian Institute
- Studies of the East Asian Institute.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China--Politics and government--1949-1976.
- China.
- China--History--1949-1976.
- China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 733 p., [4] p. of plates) : ports.
- Other Title:
- Origins of the Cultural Revolution. 3, The coming of the cataclysm, 1961-1966
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- This volume begins with the great famine of the early 1960s which resulted in tens of millions of deaths, setting in train a series of emergency measures which increasingly divided Mao from his comrades-in-arms.
- Contents:
- 1. Contradictions among the people, 1956-1957
- 2. The great leap forward, 1958-1960
- 3. The coming of the cataclysm, 1961-1966.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-214997-0
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