{"product_id":"bureaucracy-economy-and-leadership-in-china-the-institutional-origins-of-the-great-leap-forward-paperback-9780521032339","title":"Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China; The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521032339","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis study examines the origins of the Great Leap Forward, a programme of economic reform that must be considered one of the great tragedies of Communist China.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Bachman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521032339, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 23 November 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.438 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This is clearly a superb piece of scholarship. It is a major contribution to the literature on the period, and also to the literature on the political economy of the PRC. Because of the rather novel perspective applied, it is not a mere linear 'improvement' on existing works on the GLF, but an entirely new study to provide new insights.' Michael Schoenhals, Swedish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this book David Bachman examines the origins of the Great Leap Forward (GLF), a programme of economic reform that must be considered one of the great tragedies of Communist China, estimated to have caused the death of between 14 and 28 million Chinese. While standard accounts interpret the GLF as chiefly the brainchild of Mao Zedong and as a radical rejection of a set of more moderate reform proposals put forward in the period 1956 to 1957, Bachman proposes a provocative reinterpretation of the origins of the GLF that stresses the role of the bureaucracy. Using a neo-institutionalist approach to analyse economic policy-making leading up to the GLF, he argues that the GLF must be seen as the produce of an institutional process of policy-making. This book offers a reinterpretation of one of the most important episodes in the history of the People's Republic as well as a framework with which to analyse the role of institutions more generally in the political economy of the PRC.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Chronology\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Historical Background and Conceptual Approach: 2. Overview: Chinese politics and economy, 1956–7\u003cbr\u003e 3. Institutions and policy in China\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward: 4. The financial coalition\u003cbr\u003e 5. The planning and heavy industry coalition\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Party as agent of social transformation\u003cbr\u003e 7. The views of the top leadership\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Third Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee and the Great Leap Forward\u003cbr\u003e 9. Conclusions\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: the constraints on Mao\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Marxism \u0026amp; Communism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Marxism \u0026amp; Communism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Marxism%20\u0026amp;%20Communism%20%5BJPFC%5D%22\"\u003eJPFC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006223241496,"sku":"9780521032339","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521032339i_641f9b2f-c221-4346-87c7-297c59a0e11e.jpg?v=1694965024","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/bureaucracy-economy-and-leadership-in-china-the-institutional-origins-of-the-great-leap-forward-paperback-9780521032339","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}