Read Mao's Great Famine Online
Authors: Frank Dikötter
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Preface
| 1 | This has been known for some time thanks to the work of Alfred L. Chan, Mao’s Crusade: Politics and Policy Implementation in China’s Great Leap Forward , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001; see also Frederick C. Teiwes and Warren Sun, China’s Road to Disaster: Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward, 1955–1959 , Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. |
| 2 | The most recent village study is Ralph A. Thaxton, Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao’s Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village , New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008; a classic study is Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz and Mark Selden with Kay Ann Johnson, Chinese Village, Socialist State , New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. |
| 3 | Robert Service, Comrades: A History of World Communism , Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007, p. 6. |
Chapter 1: Two Rivals
| 1 | William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and his Era , London: The Free Press, 2003, p. 230. |
| 2 | Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji (eds), Mao Zedong zhuan, 1949–1976 (A bio-graphy of Mao Zedong, 1949–1976), Beijing: Zhongyang wenxian chubanshe, 2003, p. 534. |
| 3 | Li Zhisui, The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao’s Personal Physician , New York: Random House, 1994, pp. 182–4. |
| 4 | A helpful overview of the Socialist High Tide appears in Chan, Mao’s Crusade , pp. 17–24. |
| 5 | Wu Lengxi, Yi Mao zhuxi: Wo qinshen jingli de ruogan zhongda lishi shijian pianduan (Remembering Chairman Mao: Fragments of my personal experience of certain important historical events), Beijing: Xinhua chubanshe, 1995, p. 57. |
| 6 | Lorenz M. Lüthi, The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World , Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008, pp. 71–2. |
| 7 | Roderick MacFarquhar, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution , vol. 1: Contradictions among the People, 1956–1957 , London: Oxford University Press, 1974, pp. 313–15. |
Chapter 2: The Bidding Starts
| 1 | Wu Lengxi, Shinian lunzhan: 1956–1966 Zhong Su guanxi huiyilu (Ten years of theoretical disputes: My recollection of Sino-Soviet relationships), Beijing: Zhongyang wenxian chubanshe, 1999, pp. 205–6; see also Lüthi, Sino-Soviet Split , p. 74. |
| 2 | Li, Private Life of Chairman Mao , pp. 220–1. |
| 3 | Ibid., p. 221. |
| 4 | Mao Zedong, Jianguo yilai Mao Zedong wengao (Mao Zedong’s manuscripts since the founding of the People’s Republic), Beijing: Zhongyang wenxian chubanshe, 1987–96, vol. 6, pp. 625–6. |
| 5 | See the reminiscences of one of Mao’s translators, Li Yueran, Waijiao wutai-shang de xin Zhongguo lingxiu (The leaders of new China on the diplomatic scene), Beijing: Waiyu jiaoxue yu yanjiu chubanshe, 1994, p. 137; see also Yan Mingfu, ‘Huiyi liangci Mosike huiyi he Hu Qiaomu’ (Recollecting Hu Qiaomu attending two Moscow conferences), Dangdai Zhongguo shi yanjiu , no. 19 (May 1997), pp. 6–21. |
| 6 | Nikita Khrushchev, Vremia, liudi, vlast’ , Moscow: Moskovskiye Novosti, 1999, vol. 3, p. 55. |
| 7 | Veljko Mićunović, Moscow Diary , New York: Doubleday, 1980, p. 322. |
| 8 | Mao, Jianguo yilai , vol. 6, pp. 640–3. |
| 9 | Mikhael Kapitsa, Na raznykh parallelakh: Zapiski diplomata , Moscow: Kniga i biznes, 1996, p. 60. |
| 10 | Mao, Jianguo yilai , vol. 6, p. 635. |
| 11 | ‘1957: Nikita Khrushchev’, Time , 6 Jan. 1958. |
| 12 | ‘Bark on the wind’, Time , 3 June 1957. |
| 13 | Taubman, Khrushchev , pp. 305 and 374–5. |
| 14 | ‘N. S. Khrushchov’s report to anniversary session of USSR Supreme Soviet’, Moscow: Soviet News, 7 Nov. 1957, p. 90. |
| 15 | Mao, Jianguo yilai , vol. 6, p. 635. |
Chapter 3: Purging the Ranks