{"product_id":"red-revolution-green-revolution-sigrid-schmalzer-9780226330150","title":"Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China","description":"In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term \"green revolution\" to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world--and forestall the spread of more \"red,\" or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where modernization and scientific progress could not be divorced from politics, green and red revolutions proceeded side by side. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eRed Revolution, Green Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, Sigrid Schmalzer explores the intersection of politics and agriculture in socialist China through the diverse experiences of scientists, peasants, state agents, and \"educated youth.\" The environmental costs of chemical-intensive agriculture and the human costs of emphasizing increasing production over equitable distribution of food and labor have been felt as strongly in China as anywhere--and yet, as Schmalzer shows, Mao-era challenges to technocracy laid important groundwork for today's sustainability and food justice movements. This history of \"scientific farming\" in China offers us a unique opportunity not only to explore the consequences of modern agricultural technologies but also to engage in a necessary rethinking of fundamental assumptions about science and society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sigrid Schmalzer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022633015X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226330150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2016","brand":"Sigrid Schmalzer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43994076348671,"sku":"9780226330150","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_33ce1d25-cf8a-40e9-9314-0b1deb1b91e6.jpg?v=1683327993","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/red-revolution-green-revolution-sigrid-schmalzer-9780226330150","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}