We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
From rural reconstruction to agricultural engineering: a study of the cooperation between the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the International Harvester Company (1945–8).
- Authors
Zhang, Ruisheng
- Abstract
During the period of the Republic of China, a heated debate emerged among Chinese intellectuals concerning whether China should first educate peasants into citizens or help them feed themselves. Some agriculturalists, such as P. W. Tsou, argued that the first essential goal should be to apply technology and increase agricultural production to improve farmers' lives. In 1945, Tsou proposed the Agricultural Engineering Program for China to the International Harvester Company. This programme provided Harvester Fellowships to sponsor twenty Chinese students to study agricultural engineering in the US. In addition, this programme instituted the Committee on Agricultural Engineering, led by J. Brownlee Davidson, to direct teaching, research, and promulgation of agricultural engineering in China. The talent cultivated through this programme chose to remain in mainland China following the Revolution of 1949. They became the first generation of agricultural engineers in the People's Republic of China.
- Subjects
CHINA; AGRICULTURAL engineers; AGRICULTURAL engineering; PEASANTS; INTERNATIONAL Harvester Co.; CHINESE-speaking students; FORESTS &; forestry; AGRICULTURAL productivity
- Publication
Rural History, 2023, Vol 34, Issue 1, p93
- ISSN
0956-7933
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0956793322000103