From commune to capitalism: China's agricultural reforms
Chris Slee reviews Zhun Xu's book on the history of China's agricultural collectivisation.
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Chris Slee reviews Zhun Xu's book on the history of China's agricultural collectivisation.
Zhun Xu, author of From Commune to Capitalism: How China’s Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty for a discussion on China’s communes from their construction to their dismantling. They contextualize land reform globally, elaborate on how the Chinese land reform process looked different from the Soviet one, discuss how the communes looked and functioned, and what services they provided as well as their achievements and their points of failure…. Listen, below, or at