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>From Commune to Capitalism
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*How
China’s Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty*

*by Zhun Xu*
“Zhun Xu’s careful analysis debunks the conventional wisdom about the
supposed failure of agricultural collectives in China. Xu’s reassessment of
the path of agrarian change in China since 1949, which relies on interviews
with peasants as well as statistical analysis, provides a fascinating
window into the successes and the problems of collective farming in China.”
—*David M. Kotz*, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts
Amherst; author, *The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism*

In the early 1980s, China undertook a massive reform that dismantled its
socialist rural collectives and divided the land among millions of small
peasant families. Known as the decollectivization campaign, it is one of
the most significant reforms in China’s transition to a market economy.
>From the beginning, the official Chinese accounts, and many academic
writings, uncritically portray this campaign as a huge success, both for
the peasants and the economy as a whole. This mainstream history argues
that the rural communes, suffering from inefficiency, greatly improved
agricultural productivity under the decollectivization reform. It also
describes how the peasants, due to their dissatisfaction with the rural
regime, spontaneously organized and collectively dismantled the collective
system.

A closer examination suggests a much different and more nuanced story. By
combining historical archives, field work, and critical statistical
examinations, *From Commune to Capitalism* argues that the
decollectivization campaign was neither a bottom-up, spontaneous peasant
movement, nor necessarily efficiency-improving. On the contrary, the reform
was mainly a top-down, coercive campaign. Decollectivization was, indeed, a
huge success, although far from the sort suggested by mainstream accounts.
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*Zhun Xu* is Assistant Professor of Economics at Howard University. His
research interests include political economy, social development, and the
Chinese economy. His recent publications appear in *American Journal of
Public Healt*h, *Journal of Agrarian Change*, *World Development*, and *Review
of Radical Political Economics*.
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