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  title info:
    title: Power over property
    sub title: the political economy of communist land reform in China
  name:
    name part: Noellert, Matthew
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 314 pages) : illustrations, maps
  abstract: Following the end of World War II in 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spent the next three decades carrying out agrarian reform among nearly one third of the world's rural population. This book presents a new perspective on the first step of this reform, when the CCP helped redistribute over 40 million hectares of land to over 300 million impoverished peasants in the nation-wide Land Reform Movement. This Land Reform, the founding myth of the People's Republic of China (1949-present) and the cornerstone of the Chinese Communist Revolution, embodies the idea that an equal redistribution of property will lead to social and political equality. Through the systematic analysis of never-before studied micro-level data on practices of Land Reform in a complete county of over 500 villages, Power Over Property argues that in practice, the opposite occurred: the redistribution of political power led to a more equal or fair distribution of property. Despite its name, China's Land Reform primarily involved the removal of former power holders, the mobilization of mass political participation, and the creation of a new social hierarchy. Only after accomplishing all of this was it possible to redistribute land. On the eve of Land Reform, much of the Chinese countryside was under the control of predatory local strongmen who used their official position to monopolize both public and private resources. During Land Reform, the CCP allied with the rural majority to forcibly remove these strongmen and organize more democratic local government. At the end of Land Reform, this local government helped create a new social hierarchy that was not necessarily more equal, but more just, at least in the eyes of the majority. Today the ideal of equalizing wealth to achieve social equality continues to appeal to people around the world living in the midst of widespread inequality, but the experience of China's Land Reform suggests this ideal is misguided. On the one hand, social equality in…
  note: Matthew Noellert.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-314) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Land reform
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Land use, Rural
    geographic: China
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Economic conditions
    temporal: 1949-
  classification: HD1333.C6
  identifier: 9780472127108
  identifier: 0472127101
  identifier: 9780472132119
  identifier: 9780472037988
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: EYM
    record creation date: 200626
    record change date: 20221202164830.6
    record identifier: in00004606831
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng