Negotiating socialism in rural China : Mao, peasants, and local cadres in Shanxi, 1949-1953 / Xiaojia Hou.

Author
Hou, Xiaojia [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Ithaca, New York : East Asia Program, Cornell University, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
viii, 275 pages ; 22 cm.

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    "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.
    ISBN
    • 9781939161598 ((hardback))
    • 1939161592 ((hardback))
    • 9781939161796 ((paperback))
    • 1939161797 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2016933707
    OCLC
    946968034
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