Red revolution, green revolution : scientific farming in socialist China /

In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term 'green revolution' to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world - and forestall the spread of more 'red, ' or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where modernization and scientific prog...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schmalzer, Sigrid (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Temas:
Communism and agriculture.
Agriculture and state > China.
Communisme et agriculture.
Politique agricole > Chine.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Agriculture and state
Communism and agriculture
China
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Agricultural Science and the Socialist State; 2. Pu Zhelong: Making Socialist Science Work; 3. Yuan Longping: "Intellectual Peasant"; 4. Chinese Peasants: "Experience" and "Backwardness"; 5. Seeing Like a State Agent; 6. The Lei Feng Paradox; 7. Opportunity and Failure; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Sources; Index.

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