Land Wars

The Story of China's Agrarian Revolution

Brian DeMare (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2019
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-0849-8 (ISBN)

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Mao Zedong's land reform campaigns comprise a critical moment in modern Chinese history, and were crucial to the rise of the CCP. In Land Wars, Brian DeMare draws on new archival research to offer an updated and comprehensive history of this attempt to fundamentally transform the countryside. Across this vast terrain loyal Maoists dispersed, intending to categorize poor farmers into prescribed social classes, and instigate a revolution that would redistribute the land. To achieve socialist utopia, the Communists imposed and performed a harsh script of peasant liberation through fierce class struggle. While many accounts of the campaigns give false credence to this narrative, DeMare argues that the reality was much more complex and brutal than is commonly understood—while many villagers prospered, there were families torn apart and countless deaths. Uniquely weaving narrative and historical accounts, DeMare powerfully highlights the often devastating role of fiction in determining history. This corrective retelling ultimately sheds new light on the contemporary legacy of land reform, a legacy fraught with inequality and resentment, but also hope.

Brian DeMare is Associate Professor of History at Tulane University.

0. Introduction: The Story of Mao's Revolution

1. Arriving: Work Teams

2. Organizing: The Search for Bitterness

3. Dividing: Creating Peasants and Landlords

4. Struggling: Inside the Furnace of Revolution

5. Turning: The Promise of Fanshen

6. Conclusion: Agrarian Revolution in Retrospect

Erscheinungsdatum	12.07.2019
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-5036-0849-2 / 1503608492
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-0849-8 / 9781503608498
Zustand	Neuware