Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward

This study examines the origins of the Great Leap Forward (GLF), a programme of economic reform that must be considered one of the great tragedies of Communist China. While standard accounts interpret the GLF as chiefly the brainchild of Mao Zedong and as a radical rejection of a set of more moderate reform proposals put forward in the period 1956 to 1957, Bachman proposes a provocative reinterpretation that stresses the role of the bureaucracy.Bachman, David is the author of 'Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward', published 2006 under ISBN 9780521032339 and ISBN 0521032334.