In the Lap of Tigers: The Communist Labor University of Jiangxi Province.(Book Review) From: The Historian | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Chan, Ming K. | COPYRIGHT 2004 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In the Lap of Tigers: The Communist Labor University of Jiangxi Province. By John Cleverley. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 249. $21.95.)

This volume records one of the few redeeming legacies of the "Great Leap Forward" in the early history of the People's Republic of China. Although much of the "Great Leap Forward's" utopian rush to achieve rapid socioeconomic transformation, uplifting China into the Communist mode, ended in disastrous produc...

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