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

ISBN-13: 9780199244065 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 336 str.

Alfred L. Chan

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Chan shows how Mao was able to dominate policymaking and to mobilize lower-rung cadres and ordinary citizens into his own modality of madness, and shows how all this impacted on the polity and society. He does all of this in a splendid manner, providing valuable insights into how recipients of the Great Leap resisted, or attempted to resist, Mao's folly.

O autorze

Alfred L. Chan received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto. He has taught at the University of Toronto, McGill University, and Carleton University. Currently he is an associate professor of political science at Huron College University, University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is also a Research Associate of the Joint Centre on Asia—Pacific Studies, York University, University of Toronto.