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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Turning bodies and turning minds: Land reform and Chinese political culture, 1946--1952 Abstract: In the years between 1946 and 1952, the Chinese Communist Party undertook a series of massive land reform campaigns on a scale never before, or since, attempted. An event of signal consequence for 20 th century China, land reform has typically been viewed in either economic or political terms, a result of a tendency of scholars to focus on one-half of the campaigns, either stopping or starting their inquires at the 1949 divide. In order to give fitting scope to this subject, this study sees land reform as a single event, a framework that elucidates the true significance of land reform as a cultural campaign. Utilizing a diverse set of sources including novels, operas, songs, and even antithetical couplets, this dissertation explores how a highly politicized political culture embedded new rhetoric and ritual forms in the countryside, altering values and expectations at the rural level and allowing the implementation of land reform. This political culture, however, was not confined to rural society, and was actively disseminated in urban areas ensuring that all members of Chinese society would need to adapt to land reform political culture. This study thus explores some of the key carriers of land reform political culture, such as novels and operas, as well as the rhetoric and rituals that permeated village life both during and after the land reform era. |
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