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<p><strong>by Zhun Xu</strong></p>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:11px;width:85%;margin:10px auto;color:#505050;font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;line-height:150%">“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.”
<div style="text-align:right;color:#505050;font-family:Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12px;line-height:150%">—<strong>David M. Kotz</strong>, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst; author, <em>The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism</em></div>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>A closer examination suggests a much different and more nuanced story. By combining historical archives, field work, and critical statistical examinations, <em>From Commune to Capitalism</em> 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.</p>
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