Miscellaneous
This week, there is no guest. Rather, Christopher reads a paper he wrote in 2017 on the history of the Great Leap Forward. Please note that this paper contains lot of details about death. Also please note that this paper was written as an academic exercise and is based on fact, and is not based on opinion. References: Ball, Joseph. "Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward?." Monthly Review (2006). Bachman, David. Bureaucracy, economy, and leadership in China: The institutional origins of the Great Leap Forward. Cambridge University Press, 2006. Becker, Jasper. Hungry ghosts: Chinas secret famine, 1996 Bremner-Macdonald, Christopher, Machiavelli and More, Macquarie University, 2015 Brooks, Jeffrey. Thank you, comrade Stalin!: Soviet public culture from revolution to Cold War. Princeton University Press, 2000 (CIA) The Economic Situation in Communist China, Special National Intelligence Estimate, Number 13-61, Central Intelligence Agency, 1961 Chang, Jung, and Jon Halliday. Mao: the unknown story. Random House, 2007. Kung, James Kai-sing, and Justin Yifu Lin. "The causes of China’s great leap famine, 1959–1961." Economic Development and Cultural Change 52.1 (2003): 51-73. Li, Wei, and Dennis Tao Yang. "The Great Leap Forward: Anatomy of a central planning disaster." Journal of Political Economy 113.4 (2005): 840-877. MacFarquhar, Roderick, The origins of the Cultural Revolution, vol. 3: The Great Leap Forward, Oxford 1983, Oxford University Press, 1997. Manning, Kimberley Ens. "Making a Great Leap Forward? The politics of women's liberation in Maoist China." Gender & History 18.3 (2006): 574-593. Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. "The communist manifesto (1848)." Trans. Samuel Moore. London: Penguin (1967). More, Thomas, Utopia, Book II, 1551 More, Sir Thomas. "Utopia. 1551." Trans. Raphe Robynson. Utopia with the'Dialogue of Comfort." Everyman's Library. London: Dutton (1910). Peng, Xizhe. "Demographic consequences of the Great Leap Forward in China's provinces." Population and development review (1987): 639-670. Song, Shige. "Does famine have a long-term effect on cohort mortality? Evidence from the 1959–1961 Great Leap Forward Famine in China." Journal of biosocial science 41.04 (2009): 469-491. Song, Shige. "Does famine influence sex ratio at birth? Evidence from the 1959–1961 Great Leap Forward Famine in China." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences (2012) Song, Shige. "Mortality consequences of the 1959–1961 Great Leap Forward famine in China: Debilitation, selection, and mortality crossovers." Social science & medicine 71.3 (2010): 551-558. Song, Shige, Wei Wang, and Peifeng Hu. "Famine, death, and madness: schizophrenia in early adulthood after prenatal exposure to the Chinese Great Leap Forward Famine." Social science & medicine 68.7 (2009): 1315-1321. Spence, Jonathan, The Search for Modern China. Second Edition, New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1999, pages 548-553 Sylvester, Richard S. "SI HYTHLODAEO CREDIMUS": Vision and Revision in Thomas More's" Utopia." Soundings 51.3 (1968) 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. No. 24. ME Sharpe, 1999. Vogel, Ezra F. Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China. Vol. 10. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. Zagarell, Allen, et al. "Trade, women, class, and society in ancient Western Asia [and comments and reply]." Current Anthropology 27.5 (1986): 415-430. News Paper Sources Akbar, Arifa, Mao's Great Leap Forward 'killed 45 million in four years', Independent UK, Friday 17 September 2010 Website Resources 58年農村人民公社化運動 Rural People's Commune Movement in 1958 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAVYb_TM7ew&feature=youtu.be