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Authors: Frank Dikötter

Mao's Great Famine (58 page)

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Notes

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

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