Geng Changsuo
Geng Changsuo (Chinese: 耿长锁) was a national agricultural model worker in the People's Republic of China.
Biography
[edit]Beginning in the 1940s, Geng Changsuo was praised in Chinese Communist Party publications as "Co-op leader."[1]: 375
In 1952, Geng was designated as a national model worker for his contributions to agriculture.[2]: 77 He was also a village-level official in Hebei province.[2]: 77 Geng was viewed as having successfully carried out Mao Zedong's line of struggling against capitalism to advance the cause of communism.[3]: 216 American academic Edward Friedman writes that Geng "was a committed Maoist collectivist."[1]: 371
Later that year, he visited the Soviet Union as part of a group that spent three months visiting collective farms, factories, chemical plants, dams, and research institutes in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.[2]: 77 Back in Hebei, he spoke to audiences throughout the province promoting the idea that "Soviet agricultural collectivization, mechanization, and electrification is the direction that we will follow. It is the goal of our study."[2]: 77 He made a similar trip to Eastern Europe in 1957 after which he also relayed his experience to local Hebei audiences.[2]: 77
Geng was a Hebei delegate to the National People's Congress in its first (1954), second (1959), and third (1964) sessions.[4][5][6][3]: 225–226
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 Friedman, Edward (2006). "Learning About a Chinese Village in a Leninist-Party Authoritarian State". Journal of Contemporary China. 15 (47): 369–387. doi:10.1080/10670560500535076. ISSN 1067-0564.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Healy, Gavin (2026). A Guide to Mao's China: Showing the Nation to Foreign Guests. Histories and Cultures of Tourism series. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781501785900. JSTOR 10.7591/jj.32498139.
- 1 2 Friedman, Edward; Pickowicz, Paul; Selden, Mark (1991). Chinese Village, Socialist State. Yale University Press.
- ↑ "中华人民共和国第十四届全国人民代表大会代表名单" [List of Deputies to the 14th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China]. People's Daily. 4 September 1954. Archived from the original on 22 December 2022. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ↑ "中华人民共和国第二届全国人民代表大会代表名单" [List of Deputies to the 2nd National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China]. National People's Congress. 17 December 2000. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
- ↑ Ding, Jiahui (22 April 2022). "中华人民共和国第三届全国人民代表大会代表名单" [List of Deputies to the 3rd National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China]. East China Normal University. Retrieved 14 December 2025.