Source
Tier 2
Disclosed, not scored
来源
Brian DeMare
Tulane University, USA. John Christie Barr Professorship
- Publication
- Land Wars: The Story of China's Agrarian Revolution, Stanford University Press, 2019
- Proof
- Open the work ↗Archived copy ↗Link checked 2026-10-04
- Land reform figure
- at least 2 million
- Method
- Archives plus literary and documentary texts read against the grain, including Ding Ling, Zhang Ailing and Hinton's Fanshen, which he argues functions as propaganda. Oral interviews. The figure itself is a synthesis and its supporting documents were not verified.
- Affiliations and stated position
- Has written for Jacobin, the American socialist magazine, where he presses the Party on the concealed violence of land reform.
- Criticism
- Leonardo Barbosa, Leeds, on omitting Chen Yung-fa and on the book's contribution being its story rather than its method.
Where we use it
- 1Data story · land reformat least 2 milliondeaths
- 2Essay note 2Brian DeMare, Land Wars: The Story of China's Agrarian Revolution, Stanford University Press, 2019, Chapters 3-5 on staged struggle sessions.