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Negotiating socialism in rural China : Mao, peasants, and local cadres in Shanxi, 1949-1953 / Xiaojia Hou.
Author
Hou, Xiaojia
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
Ithaca, New York : East Asia Program, Cornell University, [2016]
©2016
Description
viii, 275 pages ; 22 cm.
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HX418.5 .H679 2016
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Subject(s)
Socialism
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China
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20th century
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China
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Politics and government
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1949-
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China
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Economic conditions
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1949-
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China
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Social life and customs
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1949-
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Series
Cornell East Asia series ; 179.
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Cornell East Asia series, 1050-2955 ; 179
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Summary note
"This is the first monograph in English on how China's agricultural collectivization began. In 1953 the Chinese Communist Party launched a system of agricultural collectivization to lean the countryside toward socialism. It led to the Utopian Commune Movement in 1958 and was followed by the worst famine in human history. Surprisingly, its beginnings are poorly understood and often regarded as Mao Zedong's imposition from above. This book challenges the conventional wisdom and explores how the national policy emerged from complex bureaucratic interactions among central, regional, local governments, and peasants." -- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-265) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Coming to understand peasants
Debating policies from above
Collectivizing from below
Peasants outmaneuvering the Party
The Party's revenge
The politics of grain
Epilogue : recipe for tragedy.
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ISBN
9781939161598 ((hardback))
1939161592 ((hardback))
9781939161796 ((paperback))
1939161797 ((paperback))
LCCN
2016933707
OCLC
946968034
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