Benedict Stavis

Emeritus, Temple University, USA. Contributor, Foreign Policy Research Institute

Publication: The Politics of Agricultural Mechanization in China, Cornell University Press, 1978, pages 29 to 30
Proof: Open the work ↗Link checked 2026-10-04
Land reform figure: over 1 million, disputed attribution
Method: A death figure in an aside, inside a book about agricultural mechanisation, with no verifiable supporting apparatus.
Affiliations and stated position: None stated. FPRI is a Philadelphia think tank.
Criticism: None on the figure. The 1978 reviews concern the mechanisation argument.

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