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  • The Silent Revolution: Decollectivization from Below during the Cultural Revolution

  • Frank Dikötter
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 227 / September 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    26 October 2016, pp. 796-811
    Print publication:
    September 2016
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  • This article uses fresh archival evidence to point at a rarely noticed phenomenon, namely the undermining of the planned economy by a myriad of dispersed acts of resistance during the last years of the Cultural Revolution. Villagers reconnected with the market in some of the poorest places in the hinterland as well as in better-off regions along the coast. This silent, structural revolution often involved the quiet acquiescence, if not active cooperation, of local cadres. In conclusion, the article suggests that if there was an architect of economic reforms, it was the people and not Deng Xiaoping: as with his counterparts in Central Europe and the Soviet Union, Deng had little choice but to go along with the flow.