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Article: In the Lap of Tigers: The Communist Labor University of Jiangxi Province.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2004
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In the Lap of Tigers: The Communist Labor University of Jiangxi Province. By John Cleverley. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000. Pp. xxiv, 249. $21.95.)
This volume records one of the few redeeming legacies of the "Great Leap Forward" in the early history of the People's Republic of China. Although much of the "Great Leap Forward's" utopian rush to achieve rapid socioeconomic transformation, uplifting China into the Communist mode, ended in disastrous production failure and widespread famine, in China's mountainous Jiangxi province, a novel work-study institution was inaugurated in the form of a Communist Labor University (Gongda) in 1958. A ...