ANTHRO 175Q Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Guanxi, Social Inequality, Class Conflict
Document Summary
The first theme of the class conflict to the second one (social fabric) the third conflict with the first two tension. Don"t want to farm poverty again sell land falling back to poverty again . Concerns of communist: public ownership which increases social inequality. How to get more money from people nation improvement. 1950s china weak rush to have national development. Value of individual lives sacrifice people are willing to sacrifice their lives to receive the goal. *mobilizational and organizational power of the party state. Work team not limited by social relationship (guanxi) Idealism if we get rich, more people get rich (eg. rural collectivization share harvest at the end of the year) Rural collectivization and nationalization of industry/commerce in cities (1956-1957) Reason for the collectivization and the nationalization projects; accumulation of capital for industrial development and concerns with social inequality. The stages and mobilization strategies of collectivization campaign. The different ways of party control between china and ussr.
