Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Agricultural Science and the Socialist State 27
6. 2 Pu Zhelong: Making Socialist Science Work 47
7. 3 Yuan Longping: “Intellectual Peasant” 73
8. 4 Chinese Peasants: “Experience” and “Backwardness” 100
9. 5 Seeing Like a State Agent 129
10. 6 The Lei Feng Paradox 155
11. 7 Opportunity and Failure 181
12. Epilogue 207
13. Acknowledgments 229
14. Notes 233
15. Sources 263
16. Index 289