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Article: The importance of land reform in the reconstruction of China.
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- Monthly Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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From the early 1920s through 1949 when the Peoples Liberation Army liberated Beijing, the Chinese people, rising in revolution under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, targeted domestic feudalism, bureaucratic capitalism, and foreign imperialism as the three mountains on their backs that had to be thrown off. In the 1920s and early 1930s, the landlord-dominated feudal land system was the central issue, and land reform - equal distribution of the land to all who labored on it - formed the heart of the revolutionary program. After 1937, when the Japanese embarked on the military conquest of China, their imperialist invasion, threatening China's very existence as ...