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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT: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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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center: New Research Findings on The Great Leap Forward Famine: Understanding Mao's Great Famine through the Voices of Survivors in Anhui Province
DESCRIPTION:<p>Presentations Include:<br><br>Professor <strong>Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., </strong>Politics Department, Brandeis University — "Brief Reflections on The History and Politics of the Great Leap Forward Famine:  Understanding the Present through the Past"</p><p>Professor <strong>Sun Feiyu, </strong>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"</p><p><strong>Liu Shigu, </strong>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"</p><p>Professor <strong>Lu Huilin,</strong> 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"</p>
LOCATION:Room S050 | CGIS South Building | 1730 Cambridge Street | Cambridge, MA
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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