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

During 1957 and 1958 Mao was seized by a vision that the Chinese economy could develop rapidly in leaps and bounds by relying on intuition and mass spontaneity. As a consequence, he single-handedly launched a colossal mobilization campaign called the Great Leap Forward, which featured many radical p...

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Main Author: Chan, Alfred L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Series:Studies on contemporary China (Oxford, England)
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