Mao's Crusade Politics and Policy Implementation in China's Great Leap Forward [Hardcover]

Chan's exhaustive research, using new material made available in the post-Mao era as well as archives from the 1950s and 1960s, has yielded novel insights into Mao, central decision-making, and policy implementation in the communist hierarchy.

1. Introduction: The Great Leap Forward (1958-1960)
2. Central Policy Formulation Under a Dominant Mao
3. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural and Agricultural Policies in 1958
4. The Ministry of Metallurgy and the Policies of Industrial Development in 1958
5. Agricultural and Rural Policies in Guangdong, 1958
6. Policies of Industrial Development in Guangdong, 1958
7. Conclusion

Alfred L. Chanreceived his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto. He has taught at the University of Toronto, McGill University, and Carleton University. Currently he is an associate professor of political science at Huron College University, University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is also a Research Associate of the Joint Centre on Asia--Pacific Studies, York University, University of Toronto.