Essay by Satya J. Gabriel analyzes Chinese economic conditions from the 1949 Revolution to the Great Leap Forward.

Reviews the Chinese Communist agricultural and industrial campaign initiated by Mao, 1958-1960.

Stefan Landsberger exhibits some of his Chinese propaganda posters from the era of the Great Leap Forward.

PBS supplement to the series "People's Century" provides a summary of the Great Leap Forward campaign.

Chronicles the history of Mao's socio-economic/political campaign to bring China into the industrial age, 1958-60.

Satya J. Gabriel reviews the history of China's Great Leap Forward and examines Mao's philosophy of permanent or continuing revolution.

Describes the plan of Mao Zedong to increase agricultural yield in China and the ensuing famine that led to the Cultural Revolution.