Negotiating Socialism in Rural China: Mao, Peasants, and Local Cadres in Shanxi, 1949-1953

by Xiaojia Hou

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939161797
• ISBN13: 9781939161796
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.6" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher