China's Road to Disaster: Mao, Central Politicians and Provincial Leaders in the Great Leap Forward, 1955-59: Mao, Central Politicians and Provi

by Frederick C. Teiwes and Warren Sun

Book Overview

This text analyzes the dramatic shifts in Chinese Communist Party economic policy during the mid to late 1950s which eventually resulted in 30 to 45 million deaths through starvation as a result of the failed policies of the Great Leap Forward. Teiwes examines both the substance and the process of economic policy-making in that period, explaining how the rational policies of opposing rash advance in 1956-57 gave way to the fanciful policies of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765602024
• ISBN13: 9780765602022
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary