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Why did the Chinese Communist Partys sociaist project (of agricultural collectivization and Stalinist industrialization) remain legitimate in the eyes of rural peasants even as it became more repressive and destructive in the mid-to late- 1950s?

-PRC and the Agricultural Revolution

Introduction

Asia has been the home of labor intensification efforts as it banked on its booming population to intensify industrialization and gain economic prosperity . As the concept grew recognition , the strategy was pointed out to the peasant populations whose industriousness can quantify the country 's industrial ambitions . Although industrialization is consonant with digressing away from the agricultural process a country with a rich land mass and too many people , an agrarian reform setting can greatly benefit in an agricultural move . The government for centuries had

enjoyed agricultural taxes from landowners and other special taxes and corvee labor obligations ' despite droughts and floods according to Friedman (p .8 . With the disintegration of China 's feudal society and the emerging elements of capitalism brought in by foreign powers , a semi-feudal society was established . Japanese occupation brought in a semi-feudal society particularly in the Northern provinces which soon dominated the Chinese peasantry . The easy transformation was not lost on China 's policies even after the Japanese left China on their own . China no sooner embarked on negotiations with its peasant population to embrace and adapt to agricultural development by all means

The Courtship Period

In Occupied China , the Chinese Communist leadership recognized that land was a powerful weapon that could help solidify its power throughout the villages . Land reform became a must for everyone as the Communist Party sought to further break the power of the landlord classes . Through the elements of a silent revolution ' the use of rent and interest reduction , tax reform and other indirect methods ' was employed by the PRC in to enliven the ranks of owner and cultivators and build party-peasant bonds . In the of agenda , this was important for the Communist Party to maintain unity in an anti-Japanese society . In many villages like Wugong , resistance against the Japanese got off to a slow start (p .35 , because the process of state building that was slowly employed by the party was not necessarily acceptable in some areas . But altogether peasants and counter-revolutionaries were able to break away from the clutches of landlord power and tyranny . State building as a strategy of the Communist Party was implemented along b regions and sub-regions while a slow introduction towards agriculturization was epitomized in the grassroots of communist teachings . The poor soon enjoyed better livelihood with an increase in agricultural production

After the war , cultural healing and economic recovery ' that was begun in the few years during the Japanese occupation saw armies winning careers in the new socialist state (p .111 . Chronic problems associated with the former regime were addressed while the People 's Republic of China took efforts to centralize power and control over the economy . The party-led efforts at first inaugurated life-enhancing policies that met the basic needs ' of individuals in the society (p xviii . Landlords and wealthy peasant farmers had their land redistributed to the poor peasantry as part of the party 's plan to establish control in the countryside while slowly taking...

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