From commune to capitalism : how China's peasants lost collective farming and gained urban poverty /...
From commune to capitalism : how China's peasants lost collective farming and gained urban poverty / by Zhun Xu.
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New York : Monthly Review Press, [2018]
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G 2018/6300
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English
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154 pages ; 21 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Socialism and capitalism in the Chinese countryside -- Chinese agrarian change in world-historical context -- Agricultural productivity and decollectivization -- The political economy of decollectivization -- The achievement, contradictions, and demise of rural collectives.
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New York : Monthly Review Press, [2018]
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New York (State)
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[2018]
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"In the early 1980s, China undertook a massive reform that dismantled its socialist rural collectives and divided the land among millions of small peasant families. Known as the decollectivization campaign, it is one of the most significant reforms in China's transition to a market economy. From the beginning, the official Chinese accounts, and man...
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From commune to capitalism : how China's peasants lost collective farming and gained urban poverty / by Zhun Xu.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/6300
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74VKVQVbV8dg
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9781583676998 hardcover
1583676988 paperback
9781583676981 paperback
1583676996 hardcover
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305.56330951
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991024196416502626