Land Wars: The Story of China's Agrarian Revolution explores how Mao's narrative of rural revolution became a reality, at great human cost.

Brian DeMare is Associate Professor of History at Tulane University.

0. Introduction: The Story of Mao's Revolution
1. Arriving: Work Teams
2. Organizing: The Search for Bitterness
3. Dividing: Creating Peasants and Landlords
4. Struggling: Inside the Furnace of Revolution
5. Turning: The Promise of Fanshen
6. Conclusion: Agrarian Revolution in Retrospect