Until now, very little firsthand information about Communist China has been available in this country. Of extraordinary importance, therefore, is this story of an early collective farm in East China s Chekiang Province in the 194956 period.The book is a reprinting of a work first published in China in 1957. For this edition the author has added a new Preface and a new Postscript bringing his account up to date. Jack Chen is the author of a new work on a rural people s commune, "Life in Upper Felicity," " "to be published in Spring 1973 by Macmillan.The county chronicled in this book is Hsinteng County, one of China s 2,082 counties. It offers a typical example of the co-operative movement that swept the Chinese countryside and formed the basis of the Green Revolution, a part of the over-all policy drafted by Mao Tse-tung.In his new Postscript, in the wake of the cultural revolution, Chen is able to name Liu Shao-chi as the originator of the compression, who in Mao s absence from Peking in May 1955, Chen says, got 200,000 co-ops dissolved throughout the country."
- ISBN10 0809305844
- ISBN13 9780809305841
- Publish Date 1 October 1972
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Southern Illinois University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English