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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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 unique opportunity not only to explore the environmental and social consequences of modern agricultural technologies but also to develop a critique of the fundamental assumptions about science and society that undergirded the green revolution. Because its environmental and human costs have been felt as strongly in China as anywhere on the planet, "Red Revolution, Green Revolution "is a book with clear significance for pressing political and environmental issues China, the United States, and other nations now face
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