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Urban revolution : people's communes in Beijing / Fabio Lanza
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lanza, Fabio, 1967- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in the history of the People's Republic of China
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collective settlements--China--Beijing--History--20th century.
- Collective settlements.
- Communes (China)--China--Beijing--History--20th century.
- Communes (China).
- China--History--Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960.
- China.
- China--Beijing.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026
- Summary:
- "During the Great Leap Forward (1958–62), the collectivization of the Chinese countryside had catastrophic results, but how did this short-lived political experiment reshape urban life? In the first English history of urban collectivization, Fabio Lanza explores the most radical attempts to remake cities under Mao. Examining the universalization of production, the collectivization of life, including communal canteens and nurseries, and women's liberation, intended to transform modern urban life along socialist lines, he shows how many residents, and women in particular, struggled to enact a radical change in their everyday lives. He argues that the daily reality of millions of city residents proved the limitations of an effort that tied emancipation to industrial labor and substituted subjugation to the assembly line for subjugation to the stove, confronting some of the crucial contradictions of the socialist revolution"-- Cambridge Core
- Contents:
- A new page in the history of daily life
- Politics for a transitional age : the debate on the socialist economy
- The gender of labor
- The barbers of Beijing
- Foreclosing on liberation
- Urban collectivization and its afterlives
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed May 11, 2026)
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lanza, Fabio, 1967- Urban revolution
- ISBN:
- 9781009682459
- 1009682458
- OCLC:
- 1573660359
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000339093
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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