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The Great Leap Forward (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin#ifeq:yes: Dàyuèjìn nonononono) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social plan used from 1958 to...
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The Great Leap Forward took place in 1958. The Great Leap Forward was Mao?s attempt to modernise China?s economy so that by 1988, China would have an economy that rivalled America. ... Card issued to celebrate the Great Leap Forward...
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Political Economy of the Great Leap Forward: ... The theoretical underpinnings of the Great Leap Forward are similar, in many ways, to the arguments of the late E. F. Schumacher, as presented in his book Small is Beautiful.
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One of the distinctive elements of the communes[1]and of the Great Leap Forward, as a broader attempt at social transformation, was the expansion in the role of women in economic and political life.
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The Great Leap Forward, 1958-60 ... The Great Leap Forward centered on a new socioeconomic and political system created in the countryside and in a few urban areas--the people's communes . By the fall of 1958, some 750,000 agricultural producers' cooperatives, now designated as production brigades, had been amalgamated...
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As a child growing up in rural China, Dali Yang, Assistant Professor in Political Science, heard the stories of his parents and others about the horrors of the Great Leap Forward, a time of suffering for China that came soon after the Communist revolution in 1949.
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The more incidious consequence of the backyard blastfurnaces and other nonagricultural projects of the Great Leap Forward was that they took labor away from food production and led to a shortfall in food.
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As a result of the successful economic reconstruction that had taken place in the early 1950s under the First Five Year Plan, the Party leadership headed by Mao Zedong considered the conditions ripe for a Great Leap Forward in early 1958. The Great Leap was not merely a bold economic project.
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