This interview with Dr. Fabio Lanza of the University of Arizona touches on topics related to his new book, Urban Revolution: People’s Communes in Beijing. Topics include the transformation of cities under socialism, women’s liberation, the political economy of socialist society, the Great Leap Forward, and the role of barbers and hairdressers under socialism.
Further reading:
Fabio Lanza, Urban Revolution: People’s Communes in Beijing
Fabio Lanza, The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies
Joel Andreas, Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China
Mariarosa Dalla Costa, “Women and the Subversion of the Community”
Sigrid Schmalzer, “China’s Great Leap Famine: Malthus, Marx, Mao, and Material Scarcity”
Sigrid Schmalzer, Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China
Gail Hershatter, The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past
Jeremy Brown, City Versus Countryside in Mao’s China. Negotiating the Divide
Kimberly Ens Manning, “Making a Great Leap Forward? The Politics of Women’s Liberation in Maoist China”
H-PRC Website (Besides articles and reviews by anglophone scholars, H-PRC also has a section (Revisiting the Revolution) with translations of essays by Chinese scholars on the history of the People’s Republic of China.)
Episode artwork: The cover of Fabio Lanza’s new book, Urban Revolution
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