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Red China's Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune (2018)

Eisenman, Joshua (Author)

Columbia University Press
Publication date: 2018
Language: English

ISBN: 9780231186667

Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 472

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Communism Industrialization Agriculture Economic development Green revolution 20th century, late China

China’s dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment and a rejection of the disastrous policies that produced widespread famine. In this revisionist study, Joshua Eisenman marshals previously inaccessible data to overturn this narrative, showing that the commune modernized agriculture, increased productivity, and spurred an agricultural green revolution that laid the foundation for China’s future rapid growth.

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Review Jia-Chen Fu (2021) Review of "Red China's Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune". American Historical Review (pp. 289-290). unapi

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