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When Geographies Collide: Hierarchical Regional Systems in China’s Great Leap Famine
January 24 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm PST
FreeCSDE Winter 2025 Lecture
Mark Henderson (Northeastern Univ)
This project, initiated jointly with Cai Yong (UW PhD ’05) and Anthony Garnaut, aims to develop a new approach to analyzing spatial variations in the demographic impact of China’s Great Leap Forward (1958-61) using reliable georeferenced data. Building on the insights of anthropologist G. William Skinner, we direct attention to the conflicting spatial logics of political and market hierarchies. This approach compels us to reexamine conclusions drawn from data aggregated at the level of politically defined units—provinces, prefectures, counties, and townships—even as we find that political choices made at those levels had demonstrable effects on the outcomes of the Great Leap famine.
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