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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

田家英; January 4, 1922 – May 23, 1966












In the early 1960s, Mao sent Tian to organize an investigation team to investigate in Hunan to understand the situation and problems in implementing the "Regulations on the Work of Rural People's Communes ". Tian's report questioned the efficacy and logic behind the Great Leap Forward.

秘书田家英为何吊死在毛泽东藏书室?触犯最大忌讳

Monday, April 24, 2023

Saturday, April 15, 2023

Historical Chinese Communsit Terminology (Great Leap Forward)

 包产到户 - household contract system

单干风 - winds of individual farming

黑暗风 - winds of darkness 

中心小组 - central structure

包产责任制 - responsibility system for contracting work and output

责任田 - farming responsibility system








鄧子恢 17 August 1896 – 10 December 1972

 鄧子恢 17 August 1896 – 10 December 1972










Deng became a strong defender of peasant property rights, he started opposing the radical policies of forced agricultural collectivization pursued by Mao, especially after the Great Leap Forward

He relied on extensive investigations into the rural economy to support legal protection of peasant property rights while advocating against policies involving extreme egalitarianism, by opposing policies such as excessive government grain requisitions, state monopoly of agricultural pricing and the frequent and rapid transfer of property ownership. Deng's proposals inaugurated major agricultural reforms, such as the 'household contract system' (包产到户). In this system, Deng found an efficient means of resolving the recurrent difficulties that were being faced in the management of collective work.

Deng was persecuted by Lin Biao and Jiang Qing and purged from all positions during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976). Beset with illness and bereft of official protection, Deng died from an accident on 10 December 1972 in Beijing.