Cadres, Grain, and Sexual Abuse in Wuwei County, Mao’s China

Bin, Yang; Shu-ji, Cao

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“…Tensions within our cases did not seem to counteract in any way the power Liangshan's prosecutors, jurists, and grassroots functionaries wielded over ordinary villagers. In our materials, as in the local sources used by scholars in recent years (see, e.g., Yang and Cao, 2016), low-level cadres undermined their superiors' agenda and took advantage of their power over local people. While millions perished, grassroots cadres used their social connections and local sway to benefit from the second economy in Liangshan as elsewhere (see, e.g., Cheng, 2008: 74).…”

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Gray Markets in the Great Leap: Prosecuting “Profiteering” in Liangshan County, Shandong, 1958–1960

Wang

2022

Modern China

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This article uses legal archives from Liangshan 梁山 county, Shandong, to explore the ambiguous position of rural markets in China during the Great Leap Forward campaign (1958–1962). These testimonies, though sparse, show that negotiations at a local, indeed personal, level underpinned the symbiosis between the “second economy” of illicit trade and the party-state’s putatively socialist political economy. Liangshan’s gray market bridged the gap between the party-state’s Sputnik promises and catastrophic realities, contributing twofold to the party-state’s political survival. First, illicit commerce helped famine survivors, including local cadres, obtain desperately needed sustenance; these cadres’ support of trading villagers despite top-down restrictions on such transactions likely helped them retain local moral authority after the Leap. Second, the intermittent formal prosecution of “profiteers” in the ritualized space of the county courtroom projected justice, stability, and coercive power, which also contributed to the party’s continuing hold on authority.

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Gray Markets in the Great Leap: Prosecuting “Profiteering” in Liangshan County, Shandong, 1958–1960

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2022

Modern China

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Farewell to the Huangpu River On October 9, 1967, just before their departure from Beijing to Inner Mongolia, a group of ten students from the Beijing Number 25 High School congregated in front of a picture of Chairman Mao at Tian'anmen Square. Witnessed by a crowd of a thousand local residents, they swore allegiance to Mao, declaring, For the great goal of spreading red Mao Zedong thought throughout the world, we would, if it were necessary, be willing to go up to the mountain of knives or down to the sea of fire. Following [Mao's] great directive to integrate intellectuals with workers and peasants, we are taking the first step. We will go all the way on this revolutionary road and never look back. 1

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Cadres, Grain, and Sexual Abuse in Wuwei County, Mao’s China

Cited by 16 publications

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Gray Markets in the Great Leap: Prosecuting “Profiteering” in Liangshan County, Shandong, 1958–1960

Gray Markets in the Great Leap: Prosecuting “Profiteering” in Liangshan County, Shandong, 1958–1960

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