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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. ����������� In Red Revolution, Green Revolution, 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.Typham this is the title: Red Revolution, Green Revolution Scientific Farming in Socialist China 1st Edition