2
| Beijing, 24 March 1961, 1-28-28, pp. 2–6.
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3
| Shanghai, 25 Oct. 1961, B123-5-144, p. 176.
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4
| Shanghai, Aug. 1961, B29-2-655, p. 82.
|
5
| Sichuan, 1959, JC9-249, p. 160.
|
6
| Sichuan, 1959, JC9-250, pp. 14 and 46.
|
7
| Interview with Ding Qiao’er, born 1951, Huangxian county, Shandong, Dec. 2006.
|
8
| Neibu cankao
, 2 June 1960, pp. 14–15.
|
9
| Neibu cankao
, 19 Dec. 1960, p. 21.
|
11
| Neibu cankao
, 7 Dec. 1960, pp. 21–4.
|
12
| Nanjing, 26 Feb. 1959, 4003-1-171, p. 62.
|
13
| Shanghai, 31 March 1960, B123-4-588, p. 3; 22 May 1961, B112-4-478, pp. 1–2.
|
14
| Thaxton,
Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China
, p. 201.
|
15
| Neibu cankao
, 2 Sept. 1960, pp. 5–7.
|
16
| Xuancheng, 3 May 1961, 3-1-259, pp. 75–6.
|
17
| Interview with Zeng Mu, born 1931, Pengzhou, Sichuan, May 2006.
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18
| Guangdong, 1 March 1961, 235-1-259, pp. 23–5.
|
19
| Guangdong, 1 and 27 March 1961, 235-1-259, pp. 23–5 and 32–4.
|
20
| Neibu cankao
, 26 April 1961, p. 20.
|
21
| Hebei, 27 Sept. 1960, 855-5-1996, pp. 52–4.
|
22
| Wuxian, 15 May 1961, 300-2-212, p. 243.
|
23
| Guangdong, 21 Jan. 1961, 235-1-259, pp. 16–17.
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24
| Hubei, 22 Feb. 1959, SZ18-2-197, pp. 19–21.
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25
| Hebei, 2 June 1959, 855-5-1758, pp. 46–7.
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26
| Hubei, 22–23 Feb. 1959, SZ18-2-197, pp. 6–8 and 12–14.
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27
| Hebei, 13 Dec. 1960, 855-18-777, pp. 40–1.
|
28
| Hebei, 1 June 1959, 855-5-1758, pp. 126–7.
|
29
| Hunan, 10 and 18 Dec. 1959, 146-1-507, pp. 81 and 90–3.
|
30
| Hunan, 31 Dec. 1959, 146-1-507, pp. 120–1.
|
31
| Hebei, 1 June 1959, 855-5-1758, pp. 126–7.
|
32
| Nanjing, 4 June 1959, 5003-3-722, pp. 77–81.
|
33
| Nanjing, 26 Jan. 1960, 5012-3-556, p. 60.
|
34
| Hunan, 13 Feb. 1961, 151-1-18, pp. 24–5.
|
35
| Interview with Li Erjie, born 1922, Chengdu, Sichuan, April 2006.
|
36
| Hubei, 11 May 1961, SZ18-2-202, pp. 25–6.
|
37
| Guangdong, 1961, 235-1-256, p. 73.
|
38
| Hubei, 18 Sept. 1961, SZ18-2-199, p. 7.
|
39
| Yunnan, 30 Dec. 1958, 2-1-3442, pp. 11–16.
|
Chapter 25: ‘Dear Chairman Mao’
1
| Hebei, 4 Jan. 1961, 880-1-11, p. 30.
|
2
| I resist the temptation to provide more than a few examples, although interested readers can turn to a remarkable chapter in Jasper Becker,
Hungry Ghosts: Mao’s Secret Famine
, New York: Henry Holt, 1996, pp. 287–306.
|
3
| François Mitterrand,
La Chine au défi
, Paris: Julliard, 1961, pp. 30 and 123.
|
4
| PRO, London, Nov. 1960, PREM11-3055.
|
5
| Nanjing, 17 March 1959, 4003-1-279, pp. 101–2.
|
6
| Neibu cankao
, 7 Dec. 1960, pp. 21–4.
|
7
| Shanghai, 7 May 1961, A20-1-60, pp. 60–2.
|
8
| Hubei, 14 Oct. 1961, SZ29-2-89, pp. 1–8.
|
9
| Guangdong, 1962, 217-1-123, pp. 123–7.
|
10
| Guangzhou, 24 Feb. 1961, 92-1-275, p. 75.
|
11
| Guangdong, 1962, 217-1-123, pp. 123–7.
|
12
| Guangdong, 1961, 217-1-644, p. 20.
|
13
| Nanjing, 16 July 1959, 5003-3-721, pp. 26–7.
|
14
| Gansu, 5 Sept. 1962, 91-18-279, p. 7.
|
15
| Hebei, June 1959, 884-1-183, p. 39.
|
16
| Gansu, 5 Sept. 1962, 91-18-279, p. 7.
|
17
| Ministry of Public Security report, Gansu, 8 Feb. 1961, 91-4-889, pp. 25–30.
|
18
| Nanjing, 16 July 1959, 5003-3-721, pp. 26–7.
|
19
| Hebei, 27 June 1959, 884-1-183, pp. 136 and 140.
|
20
| Hubei, 5 Sept. 1959, SZ18-2-197, p. 34.
|
21
| Sichuan, 25 May 1959, JC1-1721, p. 3.
|
22
| Cyril Birch, ‘Literature under Communism’, in Roderick MacFarquhar, John King Fairbank and Denis Twitchett (eds),
The Cambridge History of China
, vol. 15:
Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution, 1966–1982
, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 768.
|
23
| Shanghai, 7 May 1961, A20-1-60, p. 62.
|
24
| Guangdong, 3 Jan. 1961, 217-1-643, p. 102.
|
25
| Interview with Yang Huafeng, born 1946, Qianjiang county, Hubei, Aug. 2006.
|
26
| Guangdong, 2 Jan. 1961, 217-1-643, pp. 61–6.
|
27
| Sichuan, 1961, JC9-464, p. 70.
|
28
| Some very inspiring pages on rumours during collectivisation have been written by Lynn Viola,
Peasant Rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 45–7.
|
29
| Wuhan, 3 Nov. 1958, 83-1-523, p. 134.
|
30
| Guangdong, 23 Jan. 1961, 217-1-644, pp. 10–12.
|
31
| Hubei, 4 Jan. 1961, SZ18-2-200, p. 11.
|
32
| Hubei, 5 May 1961, SZ18-2-201, p. 95.
|
33
| Sichuan, 1961, JC1-2614, p. 14.
|
34
| Neibu cankao
, 9 June 1960, pp. 7–8.
|
35
| Guangdong, 5 Feb. 1961, 217-1-119, p. 45.
|
36
| Guangdong, 23 Jan. 1961, 217-1-644, pp. 10–12 and 20.
|
37
| Hunan, 23 Jan. 1961, 146-1-580, p. 54.
|
38
| Gansu, 5 Sept. 1962, 91-18-279, p. 7.
|
39
| Nanjing, 19 March 1959, 5003-3-722, pp. 68–9.
|
40
| Hebei, June 1959, 884-1-183, pp. 84–92 and 128.
|
41
| On denunciations in the Soviet Union, one reads with pleasure Sheila Fitzpatrick, ‘Signals from Below: Soviet Letters of Denunciation of the 1930s’,
Journal of Modern History
, vol. 68, no. 4 (Dec. 1996), pp. 831–66.
|
42
| Hunan, 1959–61, 163-2-232, entire file.
|
43
| Nanjing, 7 March and 13 May 1961, 5003-3-843, pp. 1–4 and 101.
|
44
| Shanghai, 30 Nov. 1959, A2-2-16, p. 75.
|
45
| Guangdong, 1961, 235-1-256, p. 90.
|
46
| Neibu cankao
, 31 May 1960, pp. 18–19.
|
47
| Neibu cankao
, 19 Dec. 1960, pp. 15–17.
|
48
| Hunan, 31 Dec. 1961, 141-1-1941, p. 5.
|
49
| Guangdong, 24 Feb. 1961, 235-1-256, pp. 40–2.
|
50
| Neibu cankao
, 12 June 1961, p. 23.
|
51
| Gansu, 14 Jan. 1961, 91-18-200, p. 50.
|
52
| Report by provincial party committee work team, Sichuan, 1961, JC1-2616, p. 111.
|
Chapter 26: Robbers and Rebels
1
| Hebei, 15 Aug. 1961, 878-1-6, p. 38.
|
2
| Neibu cankao
, 16 Dec. 1960, p. 9.
|
3
| For instance Hebei, 27 June 1959, 884-1-183, p. 135.
|
4
| Hubei, 6 Jan. 1961, SZ18-2-200, p. 22.
|
5
| Hunan, 17 Jan. 1961, 146-1-580, p. 29.
|
6
| Gansu, 24 Jan. 1961, 91-9-215, pp. 117–20.
|
8
| Neibu cankao
, 20 June 1960, pp. 11–12.
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