China's Road to Disaster: Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward, 1955-1959

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Teiwes, Frederick C. and Warren Sun. China's Road to Disaster: Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward, 1955-1959. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999. 319 pp.

In the writing of their book, Frederick C. Teiwes and Warren Sun have tapped into a new vein in the story of China and the Great Leap Forward. They describe The Great Leap Forward as being "...an unprecedented program for economic development and social transformation that was utopi...

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