When Food Became Scarce: How Chinese Peasants Survived the Great Leap Forward Famine

by Yixin Chen

When Food Became Scarce is about the Great Leap Famine of 1958-61. Yixin Chen adopts a grassroots level analysis to explore an existential question concerning hundreds of millions of Chinese peasants: why did some peasants perish while others from the same villages facing the same collective problems of food scarcity survive?

Viewing the famine as a persistent ordeal, Chen identifies environment and lineage as two pivotal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150177638X
• ISBN13: 9781501776380
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"