ISBN10: 0199244065, ISBN13: 9780199244065, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. During 1957 and 1958 Mao was seized by a vision that the Chinese economy could develop rapidly in leaps and bounds by relying on intuition and mass spontaneity. As a consequence, he single-handedly launched a colossal mobilization campaign called the Great Leap Forward, which featured many radical policy innovations, including the people's communes. This book is the first in-depth and original study of policy formulation and implementation during the Leap to linkthe roles of Mao, the central leaders, the ministries, and the province of Guangdong. Rejecting the theory that the Leap was an outcome of bureaucratic politics and competition, the study establishesbeyond doubt the supreme and dominant position of Mao in initiating and commanding the Leap. Alfred L. Chan goes further than propounding a Mao-dominant model by documenting the strategic and tactical moves made by Mao in order to neutralize all opposition and to carry the day. He also discusses in detail the policy roles and input of other top leaders on whom the improvising Mao relied to feed his imagination and to flesh out his policies. In the chapters on the implementation of the Leap, DrChan explores how the ministries of Metallurgy and Agriculture were transformed from bureaucratic agencies into agents of mobilization, and how impossible targets forced them to keep up appearances byfocussing on ...
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ISBN10: 0199244065, ISBN13: 9780199244065, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 0199244065, ISBN13: 9780199244065, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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Oxford, England OUP Oxford 2001 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 336 p. Studies on Contemporary China.