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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 1998 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 1058-3947
- eISSN
- 1876-5610
- DOI
- 10.1163/187656198X00045
- Publisher site
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Abstract
A Response to Chaos: The United States, the Great Leap Forward, a n d the Cultural Revolution, 1961-1968 Victor S. Kaufman Georgia State University During the 1960s, the P e o p l e ' s Republic of China (PRC) faced two periods of severe turbulence. The first came out of the Great Leap Forward, w h i c h began in 1958. Although the Great Leap Forward of- ficially e n d e d in 1960, its effects reverberated well into the decade. The second w a s the Cultural Revolution, w h i c h the Chinese leader- ship initiated in 1966 a n d terminated in early 1969. During both peri- o d s , t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s k n e w C h i n a w a s in t u r m o i l , b u t t h e administrations of John F. Kennedy a n d Lyndon B. Johnson adopted very different responses. The former initially considered altering ex- isting policy to help the Chinese people. Ultimately, however, a com- bination of domestic a n d
Journal
Journal of American-East Asian Relations – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1998