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 many academic writings, uncritically portray this campaign as a huge success, both for the peasants and the economy as a whole. This mainstream history argues that the rural communes, suffering from inefficiency, greatly improved agricultural productivity under the decollectivization reform.

ISBN 13: 9789387496088

ISBN 10: 9387496082

Year: 2019

Language: ENGLISH

Pages etc.: 154p., 21x14cm.

Binding: Paperback

Subject(s): Politics