Publication Type
Book Review
Publication Date
1-2019
Abstract
Professor Joshua Eisenman’s book, “Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune,” is as paradoxical as the enigmatic era that it seeks to illuminate. On the one hand, the volume contains compelling evidence – much of it newly and painstakingly collected provincial and county-level data – that the later Maoist period, particularly the 1970–1979 period, was not the disaster that it is sometimes portrayed to be. It fundamentally undermines the discredited (yet often rehearsed) fable that decollectivization was initiated and promulgated solely by desperate protesting farmers. The author supports his argument via an impressive mix of methods – including historical analysis, economic modeling and case studies.
Discipline
Political Science
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Journal of Chinese Political Science
Volume
24
Issue
3
First Page
551
Last Page
553
ISSN
1080-6954
ISBN
9780231186667
Identifier
10.1007/s11366-019-09624-z
Publisher
Springer Verlag (Germany)
Citation
DONALDSON, John A..(2019). Review: Red China’s green revolution: Technological innovation, institutional change, and economic development under the commune. Journal of Chinese Political Science, 24(3), 551-553.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3044
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-019-09624-z