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Red Revolution, Green Revolution
Sigrid Schmalzer
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hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term “green revolution” to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world—and forestall the spread of more “red,” or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where modernization and scientific progress could not be divorced from politics, green and red revolutions proceeded side by side.
In Red Revolution, Green Revolution, Sigrid Schmalzer explores the intersection of politics and agriculture in socialist China through the diverse experiences of scientists, peasants, state agents, and “educated youth.” The environmental costs of chemical-intensive agriculture and the human costs of emphasizing ... Read more
In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term “green revolution” to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world—and forestall the spread of more “red,” or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where modernization and scientific progress could not be divorced from politics, green and red revolutions proceeded side by side.
In Red Revolution, Green Revolution, Sigrid Schmalzer explores the intersection of politics and agriculture in socialist China through the diverse experiences of scientists, peasants, state agents, and “educated youth.” The environmental costs of chemical-intensive agriculture and the human costs of emphasizing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226330150
SKU
V9780226330150
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