The Great Leap Forward

This is Topic 4 of the Selected Topics from the book entitled "The Revival of China". The full book is about the revival of China in the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. This topic is about what happened before, during and after the Great Leap Forward. It covers MAO Ze-dong's premature economic advance, ZHOU En-lai's opposition against the premature advance and MAO Ze-dong's fight back before the Great Leap Forward; the process of the Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine caused by it, and champagne against PENG De-huai led by MAO Ze-dong in the Lushan Conference; and LIU Shao-qi's economic adjustments after the Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine, the Seven Thousand Official Meeting, the further economic policy adjustment led by LIU Shao-qi, and the differences and conflicts between MAO and LIU.