Mao's Crusade: Politics And Policy Implementation In China's Great Leap Forward

MAO'S CRUSADE Studies on Contemporary China The Contemporary China Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) has, since its establishment in 1968, been an international centre for research and publications on twentieth-century China. Studies on Contemporary China, which is edited at the Institute, seeks to maintain and extend that tradition by making available the best work of scholars and China specialists throughout the world. It embraces a wide variety of subjects relating to Nationalist and Communist China, including social, political, and economic change, intellectual and cultural developments, foreign relations, and national security. Series Editor Dr Frank DikoÈtter, Director of the Contemporary China Institute Editorial Advisory Board Professor Robert F. Ash Professor Hugh D. R. Baker Professor Elisabeth J. Croll Dr Richard Louis Edmonds Mr Brian G. Hook Professor Christopher B. Howe Professor Bonnie S. McDougall Professor David Shambaugh Dr Julia C. Strauss Dr Jonathan Unger Professor Lynn T. White III Mao's Crusade Politics and Policy Implementation in China's Great Leap Forward ALFRED L. CHAN AC AC Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogota Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne M