Book contents
- Revolutionary Transformations
- Revolutionary Transformations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Revolution and the Transnational
- Part II Domestic Governance
- Introduction to Part II
- 5 Modalities of State Building
- 6 The Wilds of Revolution
- 7 Reconstruction and Solidification
- Part III Legitimacy and Local Agencies
- Index
7 - Reconstruction and Solidification
The Restructuring of “Peasant” Status in the 1950s Dispersal of Shanghai’s Urban Population
from Part II - Domestic Governance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 April 2023
- Revolutionary Transformations
- Revolutionary Transformations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Revolution and the Transnational
- Part II Domestic Governance
- Introduction to Part II
- 5 Modalities of State Building
- 6 The Wilds of Revolution
- 7 Reconstruction and Solidification
- Part III Legitimacy and Local Agencies
- Index
Summary
This chapter mainly discusses the process of Shanghai evacuating a large number of urban population from the city in the early days of the founding of the people’s Republic of China by sending “refugees” and “victims” home, mobilizing farmers to return home for production, and calling on urban residents to migrate and reclaim wasteland, and changing their identity into farmers through land reform, joining co-operatives or establishing collective farms.The Communist Party of China reduces the urban population and consumption through these methods, aiming to realize the strategy of industrialization as soon as possible and build a strong socialist country.
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- Revolutionary TransformationsThe People's Republic of China in the 1950s, pp. 175 - 192Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023