Felix Wemheuer

Chair Professor for Modern China Studies, University of Cologne

Publication: A Social History of Maoist China, Cambridge University Press, 2019; the review essay on Dikotter, The China Quarterly 219, 2014
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Method: Synthesis around five social hierarchies. His archival work concentrates on the Great Leap famine, not on 1947 to 1953.
Affiliations and stated position: Not established. He has edited volumes on Marxism and communist history and trained at the CCP History Institute at Renmin. No statement of allegiance from him was found and none is inferred here from his venues.
Criticism: Jacob Eyferth, Chicago, in the International Review of Social History, calls the book a remarkable achievement and likely standard textbook. No substantive published attack found.

Where we use it

1Data story · great famine15 to 30 million excess deathsdeaths
2Essay note 3Yang Jisheng, Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012, on the unharvested autumn 1958 grain crop.