Description Mao Zedong's land reform campaigns comprise a critical moment in modern Chinese history, and were crucial to the rise of the CCP. In Land Wars, Brian DeMare draws on new archival research to offer an updated and comprehensive history of this attempt to fundamentally transform the countryside. Across this vast terrain loyal Maoists dispersed, intending to categorize poor farmers into prescribed social classes, and instigate a revolution that would redistribute the land. To achieve socialist utopia, the Communists imposed and performed a harsh script of peasant liberation through fierce class struggle. While many accounts of the campaigns give false credence to this narrative, DeMare argues that the reality was much more complex and brutal than is commonly understood—while many villagers prospered, there were families torn apart and countless deaths. Uniquely weaving narrative and historical accounts, DeMare powerfully highlights the often devastating role of fiction in determining history. This corrective retelling ultimately sheds new light on the contemporary legacy of land reform, a legacy fraught with inequality and resentment, but also hope.Number of Pages: 240 p. ;Genre: HistorySub-Genre: Asia, ModernFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Stanford Univ PrBook theme: China, 20th CenturyAuthor: Brian J. DemareLanguage: English Estimated shipping dimensions: 6.0INCH X 1.0INCH X 1.0INCH DPCI : 248-88-9685 UPC : 9781503609518 TCIN : 54486171 Estimated shippimg weight: 1.0POUND
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