荐阅022|Negotiating Socialism in Rural China

近现代史研究资讯 · 公众号 · · 2019-09-14 19:26

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No.22

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本栏目主要推荐具有一定影响的近五年内出版的史学新书，主要侧重于外文专著，偶尔会共享电子版。

Negotiating Socialism in Rural China：

Mao, Peasants, and Local Cadres in Shanxi, 1949–1953

Publication date: 06/30/2018

Pages: 288

Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 in

ISBN13: 9781939161796

本书简介

This is the first monograph in English on how China's agricultural collectivization began. In 1953, the Chinese Communist Party launched a system of agricultural collectivization to lean the countryside toward socialism. It led to the Utopian Commune Movement in 1958 and was followed by the worst famine in human history. Surprisingly, however, its beginnings are poorly understood and often regarded as Mao Zedong's imposition from above. This book challenges the conventional wisdom and explores how the national policy emerged from complex bureaucratic interactions among central, regional, local governments, and peasants.

作者简介

Xiaojia Hou,现任圣何塞州立大学历史系助理教授，北京大学历史系本（1999）硕（2002），康奈尔大学历史学博士（2008），2008年至2015年间，任教于科罗拉多丹佛大学历史系；主要研究方向是中国近代史，尤其侧重二十世纪中国农民、毛研究、近代黄河及其区域社会研究。