Diseases, peasants, and nation-building in rural China : social conformity, institutional strengthening, and political indoctrination

In 1949, the newly-established communist government claimed that the People’s Republic of China was a socialist country ruled by a people’s democratic dictatorship under the leadership of the working class, based on the union of workers, peasants, and soldiers. This new state system immediately emba...

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Main Author: Fang, Xiaoping
Other Authors: L. Bu
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Language:English
Published: Routledge 2021
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1535212021-12-16T03:18:13Z Diseases, peasants, and nation-building in rural China : social conformity, institutional strengthening, and political indoctrination Fang, Xiaoping L. Bu K. Yip School of Humanities Humanities::History China Public Health In 1949, the newly-established communist government claimed that the People’s Republic of China was a socialist country ruled by a people’s democratic dictatorship under the leadership of the working class, based on the union of workers, peasants, and soldiers. This new state system immediately embarked upon a state-building process, a project which included industrialization, collectivization, and conscription. Since China had a predominantly rural population, the peasantry naturally provided the main source of personnel for these movements. This paper examines how the health problems of workers, peasants, and army recruits motivated the state’s efforts to initiate disease eradication and prevention campaigns in rural areas. This paper also addresses how this campaign was implemented by the top-down command structure of the state system and how it contributed to the state-building process in the early years of the socialist era. 2021-12-16T03:18:13Z 2021-12-16T03:18:13Z 2014 Book Chapter Fang, X. (2014). Diseases, peasants, and nation-building in rural China : social conformity, institutional strengthening, and political indoctrination. L. Bu & K. Yip (Eds.), Public Health and National Reconstruction in Post-War Asia: International Influences, Local Transformations Routledge. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153521 978-0415719056 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153521 10.4324/9781315867694 en Public Health and National Reconstruction in Post-War Asia: International Influences, Local Transformations © 2015 Routledge. All rights reserved. Routledge
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Diseases, peasants, and nation-building in rural China : social conformity, institutional strengthening, and political indoctrination
description In 1949, the newly-established communist government claimed that the People’s Republic of China was a socialist country ruled by a people’s democratic dictatorship under the leadership of the working class, based on the union of workers, peasants, and soldiers. This new state system immediately embarked upon a state-building process, a project which included industrialization, collectivization, and conscription. Since China had a predominantly rural population, the peasantry naturally provided the main source of personnel for these movements. This paper examines how the health problems of workers, peasants, and army recruits motivated the state’s efforts to initiate disease eradication and prevention campaigns in rural areas. This paper also addresses how this campaign was implemented by the top-down command structure of the state system and how it contributed to the state-building process in the early years of the socialist era.
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title_short Diseases, peasants, and nation-building in rural China : social conformity, institutional strengthening, and political indoctrination
title_full Diseases, peasants, and nation-building in rural China : social conformity, institutional strengthening, and political indoctrination
title_fullStr Diseases, peasants, and nation-building in rural China : social conformity, institutional strengthening, and political indoctrination
title_full_unstemmed Diseases, peasants, and nation-building in rural China : social conformity, institutional strengthening, and political indoctrination
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