Mao’s China · TURNING POINT ·
Land reform in Long Bow village (1948)
On the Mao’s China map as “Long Bow village”
1948 — In Zhangzhuang (“Long Bow”), Shanxi, the American farmer and teacher William Hinton watches a work team divide the land, hold “speak bitterness” meetings and then correct its own excesses. His book Fanshen (1966), meaning “to turn over the body”, remains the closest record of how land reform worked inside one village.
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- The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
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