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Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China

This book documents how China’s rural people remember the great famine of Maoist

rule, which proved to be the worst famine in modern world history. Ralph A. Thaxton,

Jr., sheds new light on how China’s socialist rulers drove rural dwellers to hunger

and starvation, on how powerless villagers formed resistance to the corruption and

coercion of collectivization, and on how their hidden and contentious acts – both

individual and concerted – allowed them to survive and escape the predatory grip

of leaders and networks in the thrall of Mao’s authoritarian plan for a full-throttle

realization of communism – a plan that engendered an unprecedented disaster for

rural families. Based on his study of a rural village’s memories of the famine, Thaxton

argues that these memories persisted long after the events of the famine and shaped

rural resistance to the socialist state, both before and during the post-Mao era of

reform.

Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., is a Professor of Politics and the Chairman of the East Asian

Studies Program at Brandeis University. He is the author of Salt of the Earth: The

Political Origins of Peasant Protest in China (1997) and China Turned Rightside Up: Rev-

olutionary Legitimacy in the Peasant World (1983). He was named a Post-Doctoral Fel-

low at the University of California (Berkeley) Center for Chinese Studies (1974–75)

and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (2002) and has won numerous

prizes and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Univer-

sity Teachers’ Fellowship, a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship, a Chiang Ching-

kuo Foundation International Fellowship, and the United States Institute of Peace

Fellowship.

Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics

Editors

Jack A. Goldstone George Mason University

Doug McAdam Stanford University and Center for Advanced Study in the

Behavioral Sciences

Sidney Tarrow Cornell University

Charles Tilly Columbia University

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