Commune to Capitalism - Decollectivization of Agriculture in China w/ Zhun Xu

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 109 minutes

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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we once again have our great friend and comrade Zhun Xu, whom you should remember from two previous episodes of the show, North Korea & Industrial Agriculture as well as Sanctions Against China & Their Political Economy. Here, we discuss Zhun fantastic book From Commune to Capitalism: How China's Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty! Unsurprisingly, this was a fabulous discussion, and is a really important conversation when added to the two conversations on this period of history that we had in our Modern Chinese History miniseries with Ken Hammond - The Great Leap Forward & Cultural Revolution and the Deng Reform Period. It might be helpful to listen to those two episodes first, but regardless, we are sure that you will find great use in this conversation!

Zhun Xu is Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York. He is on the editorial boards of Science and Society and the Journal of Labor and Society. His recent book is From Commune to Capitalism: How China's Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty.

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0:27.6	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm one of your
0:39.1	co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my co-host, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and
0:45.3	director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you
0:49.9	doing today? Oh, hello, Henry. I'm doing great, and it's wonderful to be with you. Absolutely. It's
0:55.4	great to see you and also great to see our returning guests who I will introduce in just a
1:00.8	moment. But before I do introduce our guest and the book that we're going to be talking about today,
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