#  Fairbank Center: New Research Findings on The Great Leap Forward Famine: Understanding Mao's Great Famine through the Voices of Survivors in Anhui Province 

 



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 **April 14, 2016** 

 12:00PM - 02:00PM EDT 

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 **Room S050 | CGIS South Building | 1730 Cambridge Street | Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

Presentations Include:  
  
Professor **Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr.,** Politics Department, Brandeis University — "Brief Reflections on The History and Politics of the Great Leap Forward Famine: Understanding the Present through the Past"

Professor **Sun Feiyu,** Sociology Department, Beijing University — "The Tragedy of Mao's Revolution— The Chinese Communist Party's Destruction of the Traditional Rural Elite: Implications for the Quest for Good Governance in the PRC"

**Liu Shigu,** Post-Doctoral Fellow, History and Cultural Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong — "Hidden Responses to Bad Local Governance in the Great Leap Episode: The Formation of a China Peasants' Party in Wuwei County after the Great Famine"

Professor **Lu Huilin,** Sociology Department, Beijing University — "Cadre Behavior and the Reception of State Policy in the Great Leap Forward, Cadre Behavior and the Reception of State Policy in the Contemporary Period"



 

 



 

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