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Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China

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Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China - Schmalzer, Sigrid
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In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term "green revolution" to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger and so forestall the spread of more "red revolutions" around the globe. Yet in China green and red revolutions proceeded side by side. In this book Sigrid Schmalzer explores China's unique intersection of red and green revolutions through the experiences of scientists, peasants, state agents, and "educated youth." The history of what in China was called "scientific farming" offers a ...

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Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China 2016, University of Chicago Press

ISBN-13: 9780226330150

Hardcover