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Book Chapter
Food Riots
2024
Overview
This chapter focuses on Anhui's Tongcheng food riot, which occurred in the village of Upper Wang (Shangwang) in Tongcheng County during the Great Leap famine. Food riots usually involved the looting of a state granary and should be understood as part of the peasants' struggle to survive under the state's harsh food policies. The chapter then looks at crop riots, an expanded form of food riots. While it is challenging to definitively ascertain whether the food obtained from these riots significantly contributed to peasant survival, the frequency of these incidents indicates that the employment of violent resistance for self-protection was widespread. The chapter also considers how food riots in rural areas were usually organized based on lineage and kinship ties.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
ISBN
9781501776380, 150177638X
