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, however, 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.
| ISBN: | 9781939161796 |
| Publication date: | 30th June 2018 |
| Author: | Xiaojia Hou |
| Publisher: | Cornell University East Asia Program an imprint of Cornell University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Genres: |
Asian history Political ideologies and movements General and world history |
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.
Negotiating Socialism in Rural China features in the following genres: Asian history, Political ideologies and movements, General and world history
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Negotiating Socialism in Rural China was written by Xiaojia Hou and published by Cornell University East Asia Program an imprint of Cornell University Press
Negotiating Socialism in Rural China has 288 pages
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