Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform: Initial Steps Toward a New Chinese Countryside, 1976-1981

ISBN-13: 9780367597351 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 350 str.

Frederick C. Teiwes; Warren Sun

Opis

The decollectivization of Chinese agriculture in the early post-Mao period is widely recognized as a critical part of the overall reform program. But the political process leading to this outcome is poorly understood. A number of approaches have dominated the existing literature, but this study provides a new interpretation challenging conventio

Spis treści

Introduction 1. From the Dazhai Model to Hua Guofeng’s Pro-Peasant Policies, October 1976–Summer 1978 2. The Pre-Third Plenum Work Conference: Pro-Peasant Policies, Conflict, and the Ban on Household Contracting, November–December 1978 3. Household Responsibility Emerges as a Contentious Issue, 1978–1979 4. New Leadership And Uncertain Policy: Conflict in the National Context, 1980 5. The Gate to Decollectivization Decisively Opened Despite Uncertainty, 1981 6. Conclusion

O autorze

Frederick C. Teiwes is Emeritus Professor of Chinese Politics at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Warren Sun is Reader in the Chinese Studies Program at Monash University, Australia.