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Two Revolutions - Village Reconstruction and the Cooperative Movement in Northern Shaanxi, 1934-1945 (Hardcover)
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Two Revolutions - Village Reconstruction and the Cooperative Movement in Northern Shaanxi, 1934-1945 (Hardcover)
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A study of the Chinese Communist Party's revolutionary enterprise
in northern Shaanxi during the 1934-45 period, this book argues
that the "Yan'an Way," long celebrated by the Party as the
foundation and model for its success, was a product of quite
special circumstances that were not replicable in most other parts
of China.
In late 1943, Mao Zedong hailed the rural cooperative movement in
northern Shaanxi as the northwest base area's "second revolution,"
the first being the land reform of 1934-36. Based on newly
available Chinese sources, the book studies the different styles
and consequences of the Party's efforts in two key subregions of
northern Shaanxi, Yanshu (the home of the "Yan'an Way") and Suide.
The critical difference between the two subregions was an abundance
of land in Yanshu and a severe scarcity of land in densely
populated Suide. In Yanshu, the Party was able to ride a wave of
farmer enthusiasm for farm building and development, whereas in
Suide the task was to cull farming populations, resulting in
resentment of cadre heavy-handedness.
To show the variation in reform outcomes in the two subregions, the
author examines the result of the Party's major reconstruction
initiatives: internal migration, tax reform and tax collection
mobilizations, tenancy reform, and heightened agricultural goals.
Predictably, because of the widely varying conditions in Yanshu and
Suide, community building took radically different forms and had
strikingly different consequences.
Throughout, the book considers the evolution of peasant-Party
relations in a period when the Party was consolidating its
state-building and rural development strategies. It also studies
the meaning of rural "democracy" in the Communist base area, the
problem of "peasant consciousness" in relation to revolution and
mobilization, the function of rural cooperatives, and the
state-village nexus as it developed during a period of
revolutionary upheaval.
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