Red China''s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune
ISBN: 9780231546751
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Green Revolution -- China; Communes (China); Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- China; Agriculture and state -- China;

China's dismantling of the Mao-era commune system under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment. Joshua Eisenman marshals previously inaccessible data to overturn this narrative, showing that the commune modernized agriculture, increased productivity, and laid the foundation for future rapid growth.


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Joshua Eisenman is an assistant professor of public affairs in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the co-author of China and Africa: A Century of Engagement (with David H. Shinn; University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012) and the co-editor of China and the Developing World: Beijing's Strategy for the 21st Century (with Eric Heginbotham and Derek Mitchell; M.E. Sharpe, 2015).Joshua Eisenman is assistant professor at the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and senior fellow for China studies at the American Foreign Policy Council. He is coauthor of China and Africa: A Century of Engagement (2012) and coeditor of China Steps Out: Beijing's Major Power Engagement with the Developing World (2018).

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