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1. When Taylorism Met Revolutionary Romanticism: Documentary Cinema in China’s Great Leap Forward.

Author

Ying Qian

Subjects
*DOCUMENTARY films, *INDUSTRIALIZATION, *SOCIAL change, GREAT Leap Forward, China, 1958-1961
Abstract

The article analyzes deep entanglement between cinema and material productions in industry, agriculture and infrastructure and investigates the intertwined histories of media practice and social transformation. Topics discussed include Great Leap Forward, a mass campaign of China to speed up industrialization, Documentary films witnessing the greatest growth of 1958–1959, social transformations in existing class structure of China and impact of cinema on practices of labor and technology.

Published
2020
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2. The CEO of the Utopian Project: Deng Xiaoping's Roles and Activities in the Great Leap Forward.

Author

Chung, Yen-lin

Subjects
*FAMINES, *STARVATION, *SOCIALISM, *ECONOMICS, *HISTORY, GREAT Leap Forward, China, 1958-1961, ECONOMIC conditions in China -- 1949-1976
Abstract

This article examines how Deng Xiaoping actively participated in, effectively implemented and strictly supervised Mao's notorious utopian project, the Great Leap Forward, which claimed the lives of tens of millions of Chinese people. The paper will also consider the negative influences of Deng on the political processes of the Chinese Communist Party during the devastating campaign. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013
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3. Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China's Capitalist Ascent.

Author

Wright, Tim

Subjects
*BOYCOTTS, *COMMUNISTS, GREAT Leap Forward, China, 1958-1961
Abstract

During both the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, these officials were highly vulnerable to finding themselves on the wrong side of the debate between redness and expertise. To some extent it is tempting to suggest that Kelly is arguing against a straw man - that China's ideology required severance of any connections or trade with capitalist countries. Two key figures were among those persecuted to death in the Cultural Revolution - Ye Jizhuang ( ), long-time minister of foreign trade, and Qin Bangli ( ). [Extracted from the article]

Published
2022
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4. Database of Chinese Great Leap Forward and Great Famine 1958-1962.

Author

Wemheuer, Felix

Subjects
*CD-ROMs, GREAT Chinese Famine, 1958-1961, GREAT Leap Forward, China, 1958-1961
Abstract

The article reviews volume 1 of the CD-ROM entitled "Database of Chinese Great Leap Forward and Great Famine 1958-1962" compiled and edited by The Chinese Great Leap Forward and Great Famine Database, with the chief editor Song Yongyi.

Published
2015
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