Jeremy Brown is Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. He is author of City Versus Countryside in Mao’s China: Negotiating the Divide (2012) and editor of Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism (2015, with Matthew D. Johnson).
Jeremy Brown
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Famine Fiction
Betraying friends. Trading sex for food. Devouring human flesh. All of these occurred during the famine that followed China’s Great Leap Forward (1958–1961), and all of them …
