PREVIEW Writtenology 5 - Fanshen

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4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village is a 1966 book by academic William Hinton, documenting the experience of one particularly poor Chinese village of early efforts at land reform. It is almost opaquely dense, and yet very illuminating. Get the full episode on Patreon! If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture *LIVE SHOW ALERT* We’re touring the Midlands, the North, and (one city in) Scotland in May! We’ll be in Birmingham on May 14, Leeds on May 15, Manchester on May 16, and Glasgow on May 21. Tickets are available here: https://www.trashfuture.co.uk/events *STREAM ALERT* Check out our Twitch stream, which airs 9-11 pm UK time every Monday and Thursday, at the following link: https://www.twitch.tv/trashfuturepodcast *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ *MILO ALERT* Check out Milo’s upcoming live shows here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows and check out a recording of Milo’s special PINDOS available on YouTube here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRI7uwTPJtg *ROME ALERT* Milo and Phoebe have teamed up with friend of the show Patrick Wyman to finally put their classical education to good use and discuss every episode of season 1 of Rome. You can download the 12 episode series from Bandcamp here (1st episode is free): https://romepodcast.bandcamp.com/album/rome-season-1 Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

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0:00.0	But they create this association of like poor peasants, of hired laborers.
0:04.8	And they kind of like successfully steer it from being an anti-collaborator struggle to an
0:11.6	anti-landlord struggle.
0:12.9	And this is when they find a receptive audience.
0:15.5	And this is when they get the terror is because the longer it's been, the more people
0:20.0	think, well, maybe the Quimantang's
0:21.3	not coming back.
0:23.1	And we're now being sort of like told explicitly, like, this is a class struggle.
0:28.1	And there are like pages and pages of sort of like heartbreaking details of abuse by landlords.
0:36.1	Hinton asks one guy, like, you know, what was the happiest day in your
0:39.0	life? And he says, I haven't had one. It's been better since liberation, but I've never had,
0:43.7	like, a good day in my life. And... That's heavy. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. To imagine the squandering
0:53.9	of a life like that is...
0:56.0	Well, he says, like, you could not ask someone about what it was like before the
1:02.6	revolution without them crying.
1:06.3	And yeah, absolutely.
1:08.6	So what of course happens is more struggle sessions.
1:11.7	And the chief landlords, the priest as well as gone by this point, they've fled.
1:16.9	What you do have are they're sort of like compradors, right?
1:20.7	They're retainers, their families, people who like manage their lands, their agents.
1:26.8	You have the PMC.
1:28.3	Yeah, exactly.
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