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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: DeMare, Brian James, author.
Title: Land wars : the story of China's agrarian revolution / Brian DeMare.
Description: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018052952 (print) | LCCN 2019003609 (ebook) | ISBN 9781503609525 | ISBN 9781503608498 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781503609518 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Land reform—China—History—20th century. | Social conflict—China—History—20th century. | Collectivization of agriculture—China—History—20th century. | Communism and agriculture—China—History—20th century. | Propaganda, Communist—China—History—20th century. | Mao, Zedong, 1893–1976—Political and social views. | China—Rural conditions—20th century. | China—History—Civil War, 1945–1949.
Classification: LCC HD1333.C6 (ebook) | LCC HD1333.C6 D45 2019 (print) | DDC 338.10951/09045—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018052952
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