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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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Series: | Studies on contemporary China (Oxford, England)
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Online Access: | CONNECT |