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Category: Sichuan

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Mistranslating Mao in Chengdu, 1958

7 Jan 20191 Jul 2021
[Updated on 1 July 2021] The question of Mao Zedong’s personal role in triggering massive famine in China during the Great Leap Forward (1958-61) brings us into an important debate.…
China…

Grain Politics and Sichuan in the 1950s

4 Aug 20164 Aug 2016
There are few lines of historical investigation more fraught in China than those concerned with food, security, and famine in Sichuan province in the 1950s. But where to start the…
China…

Writing the Early Postwar: White and Jacoby’s _Thunder Out of China_

2 Aug 20163 Aug 2016
Foreign correspondents are crucial conduits for insights into contemporary East Asia. As I've learned from my conversations with various bureau chiefs, stringers, and greybeards in the region, there are few…
Borderlands…

Unrest in the Southwest: The Linshui Protests in Historical Perspective

21 May 2015
Unrest in the Southwest: The Linshui Protests in Historical Perspective by Adam Cathcart and Li Wankun, University of Leeds for University of Nottingham China Policy Institute Blog Due to the…
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