Hard facts and half-truths: The new archival history of China’s Great Famine

Garnaut, Anthony

doi:10.1177/0920203x13485390

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“…Scholars using the fact-based approach to reveal the true scope and nature of the GLF and GF have been critiqued for their reliance on limited and/or nonrepresentative data as well as for their inability to reach definitive figures on the death toll (Garnaut, 2013). But no one has questioned the ethics involved with respect to confidentiality and anonymity when the names, addresses, and even photos of the informants have been published by researchers to validate the use of their eye witness accounts (J.…”

Section: Seeking Truth Through Data: a Methodological Reviewmentioning

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Unmasking China’s Great Leap Forward and Great Famine (1958-1962) ThroughShunkouliu(顺口溜)

Hsiung

2018

Qualitative Inquiry

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Satiric Shunkouliu (顺口溜), an oral folklore tradition among Chinese peasants known as “slippery jingles” or “doggerels,” express discontent and often contain disguised critiques of official propaganda. In this article, I call upon Shunkouliu to expose the reality behind the dogma during China’s Great Leap Forward and Great Famine (1958-1962). This departs from existing scholarship that has focused on written texts and interviews as primary data. Analyzing Shunkouliu demonstrates the collective efforts of Chinese peasants in speaking the truth. Through its satiric and disruptive qualities, Shunkouliu challenged official rhetoric by making erased realities visible and silenced voices audible. Recognizing Shunkouliu as legitimate data also challenges positivist criteria (representativeness and sample size) in assessing data credibility. I conclude this article by urging qualitative practitioners in the global South to explore forms of data beyond those traditionally examined within the parameters of qualitative research originating in the global North.

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Section: Seeking Truth Through Data: a Methodological Reviewmentioning

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Unmasking China’s Great Leap Forward and Great Famine (1958-1962) ThroughShunkouliu(顺口溜)

Hsiung

2018

Qualitative Inquiry

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“…In recent years, however, local histories of the famine and memoirs by party officials have been published, and internal party reports have been uploaded to the Internet (e.g. Garnaut, 2013: 225). The publication of popular books, such as Yang Jisheng’s Tombstone ( Mubei ) in 2008 and Frank Dikötter’s Mao’s Great Famine in 2010, has arguably also had an impact on popular remembrance of the Great Famine.…”

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Chinese collective memory on the Internet: Remembering the Great Famine in online encyclopaedias

Gustafsson

2017

Memory Studies

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Recent research on how the Great Chinese Famine was debated on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, in 2012 suggests that information and communication technologies can challenge official versions of the past and increase pluralism in collective memory narratives in authoritarian states. This article suggests that analysing change in the treatment of the famine in Chinese online encyclopaedias during and following the debate helps us further explore the debate's impact. Moreover, it allows us to determine the extent to which Chinese online encyclopaedias function as the type of memory place that previous research on Wikipedia in other contexts might lead us to expect. The article concludes that the changes made to the narratives about the Great Famine in Chinese online encyclopaedias following the debate were rather limited and that the Chinese online encyclopaedias have not yet developed into participatory and pluralistic memory places that challenge official narratives.

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“…It does not matter that the cover photo of the book of a hungry boy was a photo of the 1942 famine in China. It does not matter that Professor Dikötter not only has great problems with his research methodology, as reviewed by Anthony Garnaut (2013) of Oxford University, but also has deliberately distorted documentary evidence as pointed out by Sun (Sun 孙万国 2013) at the Australian National University.…”

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Marxian Political Economy

Becker¹

2021

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism

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Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane was born on 26 August 1930 close to Colenso, in Natal, South Africa. His life story, as a black South African and one of the country's leading scholar activists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including during his years of exile, is an instructive and inspiring example. Magubane wrote some of the most powerful works of scholarship analysing the relationship between imperialism, white-settler colonialism, and race and class in South Africa and the global system. This included overseeing a massive ten-volume work on the history of the black liberation struggle upon his return to South Africa under the country's majority rule and multiracial democracy inaugurated in the 1990s with the election of President Nelson Mandela, the head of the African National Congress (ANC), after his release from prison. This essay provides an overview of Magubane's life and work.Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane was born on 26 August 1930 close to Colenso, in Natal, South Africa. His life story, as a black South African and one of the country's leading scholar activists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including during his years of exile, is an instructive and inspiring example. Magubane wrote some of the most powerful works of scholarship analysing the relationship between imperialism, white-settler colonialism, and race and class in South Africa and the global system. This included overseeing a massive ten-volume work on the history of the black liberation struggle upon his return to South Africa under the country's majority rule and multiracial democracy inaugurated in the 1990s with the election of President Nelson Mandela, the head of the African National Congress (ANC), after his release from prison.While a child, as recounted in My Life and Times (2010), Magubane's grandparents related stories to him of the Zulu War of 1879 and the Bambatha Rebellion of 1906, named after the Zulu minority ruler, and these made an indelible impression. Magubane's grandparents had seen the defeat of the Zulu Kingdom and its incorporation into Natal and the British Empire in 1897, soon followed by the Anglo-Boer War, which helped bring the word 'imperialism' into the English language, the formation of the Union of South Africa, which became a dominion of the

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Hard facts and half-truths: The new archival history of China’s Great Famine

Cited by 18 publications

References 20 publications

Unmasking China’s Great Leap Forward and Great Famine (1958-1962) ThroughShunkouliu(顺口溜)

Unmasking China’s Great Leap Forward and Great Famine (1958-1962) ThroughShunkouliu(顺口溜)

Chinese collective memory on the Internet: Remembering the Great Famine in online encyclopaedias

Marxian Political Economy

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