| Description |
1 online resource (x, 323 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Agricultural Science and the Socialist State; 2. Pu Zhelong: Making Socialist Science Work; 3. Yuan Longping: "Intellectual Peasant"; 4. Chinese Peasants: "Experience" and "Backwardness"; 5. Seeing Like a State Agent; 6. The Lei Feng Paradox; 7. Opportunity and Failure; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Sources; Index |
| Summary |
In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term 'green revolution' to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world - and forestall the spread of more 'red, ' or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where modernization and scientific progress could not be divorced from politics, green and red revolutions proceeded side by side. In this book, Sigrid Schmalzer explores the intersection of politics and agriculture in socialist China through the diverse experiences of scientists, peasants, state agents, and 'educated youth.' |
| Analysis |
science, scientific, farm, farming, work, socialism, socialist, government, theory, theoretical, china, chinese, asia, asian, eastern, far east, usaid, 1960s, green, revolutionary, change, hunger, starving, activism, aid, help, modernization, contemporary, modern, agriculture, environmental, mao, era, time period, justice, injustice, academic, scholarly, research |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Communism and agriculture.
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Agriculture and state -- China
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Política agraria.
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Agriculture and state
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Communism and agriculture
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China
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China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226330297 |
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022633029X |
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