Download or read book Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China written by David Bachman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-04-26 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 more moderate reform proposals, Bachman proposes a provocative reinterpretation stressing the role of bureaucracy.