Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune

CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES

BY LYNN T. WHITE III

CHINA’S MISSING INSTITUTION

Introduction: Assessing Commune Productivity

Creating China’s Green Revolution

Institutional Origins and Evolution

Chapter Three

China’s Green Revolution

Sources of Commune Productivity

Economics: Super-Optimal Investment

Politics: Maoism

Organization: Size and Structure

Chapter Seven

Burying the Commune

Chapter Eight

NATIONAL AND PROVINCIAL AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION DATA, 1949–1979

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS FOR CHAPTER 6

ESSENTIAL OFFICIAL AGRICULTURAL POLICY STATEMENTS ON THE COMMUNE, 1958–1983

I. COMMUNE CREATION

a. August 29, 1958: CPC Central Committee, “Resolution on the Establishment of People’s Communes in the Rural Areas”

b. November 3, 1960: CPC Central Committee, “Urgent Directive Concerning Present Policy Problems in Rural People’s Communes”

c. September 1962: CPC Central Committee, “Working Regulations of Rural People’s Communes” (a.k.a., The Sixty Articles on Agriculture)

II. COMMUNE REFORM AND GOVERNANCE

d. December 11, 1970: State Council, “Report of the State Council on the Northern Districts Agricultural Conference”

e. December 26, 1971: Central Document No. 82, “CPC Central Committee Directive Concerning the Question of Distribution in the Rural People’s Communes”

f. October 15, 1975: Central Document No. 21, Hua Guofeng’s Abridged Report on the First Dazhai Conference, “Mobilize the Whole Party, Make Greater Efforts to Develop Agriculture and Strive to Build Dazhai-Type Counties Throughout the Country”

III. DECOLLECTIVIZATION

g. May 31, 1980: Deng Xiaoping, “On Questions of Rural Policy”

h. September 27, 1980: Central Document No. 75, “CPC Central Committee Directive Concerning Several Issues in Further Strengthening and Perfecting the Production Responsibility System in Agriculture”

i. October 12, 1983: CPC Central Committee and State Council, “Circular on Separating the Local Government from Communes and Setting Up Township Governments”