people's commune
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English
Etymology
Calque from Chinese 人民公社 (rénmín gōngshè).
Noun
people's commune (plural people's communes)
- An administrative level in rural areas of the People's Republic of China from 1958 to 1983.
- Coordinate terms: production brigade, production team
- 1961 May [1961 January 22], “China: Re-educating Capitalists”, in East Europe, A Monthly Review of East European Affairs, volume 10, number 5, New York: Free Europe Committee, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 1:
- A scene from China’s great drought of 1960. Members of the Sanhsiang people's commune in Yiyang County form a "bucket brigade" to bring water from the Lo River, reduced to a trickle.
China Reconstructs (Peiping), November 1960
- 1969 March 14 [1969 March 13], “Report from Border Areas”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 50, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →OCLC, page A 6:
- Members of the Chinghsin people's commune in Hunchun County, Kirin Province, on the anti-revisionist forefront, demonstrated through the night.
Translations
administrative area
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