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

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Mao's Crusade: Politics and Policy Implementation in China's Great Leap Forward. By Alfred L. Chan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. XIII + 321 pp. Index, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 0-199-24406-5.

The Great Leap Forward (GLF) campaign from 1958 to 1960 presents a watershed in the history of post-1949 China. Its catastrophic economic effects and resulting political cleavages among the Chinese leadership indirectly led to the outbreak of the second major political upheaval, the Cultural Revolution, in 1966. Departing from the First Five-Year plan, based on the centralized ...

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