Author: anonymous [China]
Title: a manuscript diary by a production brigade leader from the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, 1966
Description: 1966. orig.wrappers. 19x13cm, 230 pp. Consists of approximately 200 leaves containing 230 handwritten pages. Mostly single-side pages.. Rubbed. Some dogearing. Rear cover chip. Good. ¶ This is a 230-page handwritten diary, entirely in Chinese, authored by a production brigade leader at the beginning of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 19 66. Includes a great deal of detail on production activity, farming work, economic life, political meetings studying Chairman Mao's instructions, how the cultural revolution started in this brigade, and related politial affairs of 1966. ["A production brigade was formerly the basic accounting and farm production unit in the people's commune system. Production teams were largely disbanded during the agricultural reforms of 1982-85. In the administrative hierarchy, the team was the lowest level, the next higher levels being the production brigade and people's commune. Typically the team owned most of the land and was responsible for income distribution. Since 1984 most teams have been replaced by villages" - wikipedia]

Keywords: Chinese Political History, Communist China, Maoist Maoist, Cultural Revolution, Red Guard Period, Economy Economic, Manuscript Diary, Diaries Communism, Production Brigade, Agriculture Rural