New Earth: The Story of an Early Collective Farm in East China's Chekiang Province in the 1949-1956 Period

By Jack Chen

Until now, very little firsthand informa­tion about Communist China has been available in this country. Of extraordinary importance, therefore, is this story of an early collective farm in East China's Chekiang Province in the 1949-56 period.

The book is a reprinting of a work first published in China in 1957.For this edition the author has added a new Preface and a new Postscript bringing his account up to date. Jack Chen is the author of a new work on a rural people's commune, Life in Upper Felicity, to be published in Spring 1973 by Macmillan.

The county chronicled in this book is Hsinteng County, one of China's 2,082counties. It offers a typical example of the co-operative movement that swept the Chinese countryside and formed the basis of the Green Revolution, a part of the over-all policy drafted by Mao Tse-tung.

In his new Postscript, in the wake of the cultural revolution, Chen is able to name Liu Shao-chi as the originator of the "compression," who in Mao's absence from Peking in May 1955, Chen says, got 200,000co-ops dissolved throughout the country.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809305844
• ISBN13: 9780809305841
• Release Date: October 1972
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.5"