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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Cast of Characters: Da Fo Village (Great Buddha), 1920-1993 | |
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| Chronology of Important Events | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Great Leap Forward Famine and Chairman Mao's Catastrophe | |
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| The History of a Single Rural Village | |
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| Memory, Politics, and Oral History Methodology | |
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| Book Overview | |
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| The Republican Era and the Emergence of Communist Leadership During the Anti-Japanese War of Resistance | |
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| Saline Earth and Earth Salt | |
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| The Crises of the Republican Period | |
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| Large Landholders in the Republican Period | |
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| The Japanese Invasion and the Two Poles of the Resistance | |
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| The Da Fo Militia and the Second Pole | |
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| Early Communist Party Governance and Protection in Da Fo | |
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| The Ascent of the Vigilante Militia: The Violent Antecedents of Mao's War Communism | |
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| Occupation by Yang Faxian's Puppet Regime | |
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| The Second Pole in Occupied Da Fo | |
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| The Land Revolution of 1945-1947 | |
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| The Civil War and Vigilante Violence, 1946-1949 | |
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| The Disappearance of the First Pole | |
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| The Work Style of War | |
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| The Onset of Collectivization and Popular Dissatisfaction with Mao's "Yellow Bomb" Road | |
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| Cooperativization: Mutual Aid Groups and Land-Pooling Associations | |
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| The Introduction and Escalation of Unified Purchase and Sale | |
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| The Failure of the Agricultural Production Cooperative | |
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| The Path to the Liangmen People's Commune | |
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| The Mandate Abandoned: The Disaster of the Great Leap Forward | |
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| Farming and Living Collectively | |
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| Runaway Procurement and the Causes of the Famine | |
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| Escalating Demands for Labor | |
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| The Gender Bias of Maoist Forced Labor and the Attack on Motherhood | |
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| Public Criticism | |
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| Strategies of Survival and their Elimination in the Great Leap Forward | |
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| Foot-Dragging | |
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| Remittances | |
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| Migration | |
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| The Black Market | |
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| Begging | |
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| Crop Theft | |
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| Gleaning | |
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| Grain Concealment | |
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| The Nature of Resistance in the Early Years of the Great Leap | |
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| Political Repression and the Lesson from Xinyang | |
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| The Escape from Famine and Death | |
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| Chi Qing: The Most Effective Hidden Strategy of Resistance | |
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| The Death Rate in Da Fo | |
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| Explaining Da Fo's Escape from the Great Leap Forward Famine | |
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| Chi Qing as a Form of Anti-State Resistance | |
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| Indignation and Frustrated Retaliation: The Politics of Disengagement | |
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| Alienation and Disengagement during the Great Leap Forward | |
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| Resentment Unalleviated: The Anti-Five Winds Campaign and the Four Cleanups Campaign | |
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| The Cultural Revolution and Its Complexities | |
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| The Price of Restoring Order: Bao Zhilong Is Returned to Power | |
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| The Market Comes First: The Economics of Disengagement and the Origins of Reform | |
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| Hidden Smallholding within Collectivization | |
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| The Land Division of 1982 | |
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| Hidden Market Reentry within Collectivization | |
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| Persistent Memories and Long-Delayed Retaliation in the Reform Era | |
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| The State Campaign to Manage the Memory of the Great Leap Forward Famine | |
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| Obstacles to Creating a New Memory of the Great Leap Forward Famine | |
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| Settling the Score | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| War Communism and Lumpen Leadership | |
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| The Repression and Theft of Entitlement | |
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| Resistance, Memory, and Communist Party Legitimacy | |
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| The Cultural Revolution and Its Link to the Great Leap Famine | |
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| The Great Leap's Legacy and Reform | |
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| Reform and Revenge | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |