CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction: The Story of Mao’s Revolution

1. Arriving: Work Teams

2. Organizing: The Search for Bitterness

3. Dividing: Creating Peasants and Landlords

4. Struggling: Inside the Furnace of Revolution

5. Turning: The Promise of Fanshen

Conclusion: Agrarian Revolution in Retrospect

Appendix: Major Land Laws and Rural Campaigns

Notes

Bibliography

Index