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In the Lap of Tigers - The Communist Labor University of Jiangxi Province (Paperback)
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In the Lap of Tigers - The Communist Labor University of Jiangxi Province (Paperback)
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Founded in the forested mountains of ChinaOs remote Jiangxi
Province in 1958, the Communist Labor University, along with some
100 branch campuses, introduced uneducated farmers and peasants to
basic agricultural science and farming techniques through an
innovative work-study program until 1980. Drawing on a wealth of
archival materials, John Cleverley here explores the inner workings
of this unique Chinese institution and the direct personal
involvement in its affairs by the nationOs key communist leaders,
including Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, and Deng Xiaoping. The
community would survive the dictates of political agriculture,
famine and pestilence, and the Cultural Revolution, thus mirroring
higher education's own cycle of expansion, contraction, and
division. Yet the university could not avoid the bitter factional
politics and deadly power plays of the 1970s. Open to the charge
that it was a utopian experiment, another of Mao's great follies,
its undoing was part of the larger canvas of ChinaOs shift from a
Maoist vision to DengOs philosophy of pragmatic socialism. This
fascinating story illuminates the internal and external politics of
an innovative educational enterprise from both an institutional and
personal perspective. In the process, the book underscores the
larger issues of educational reform and political and social change
in China.
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