Podcast
Behind the Bastards
It was used as a source for the podcast episode, with a quote from a Tang dynasty poem included as an epigraph, setting the tone for the discussion of the disastrous consequences of Lysenkoism in China.
Seeing all men behaving like drunkards, how can I alone remain sober?
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It was used as a source for the podcast episode, with a quote from a Tang dynasty poem included as an epigraph, setting the tone for the discussion of the disastrous consequences of Lysenkoism in China.
Seeing all men behaving like drunkards, how can I alone remain sober?
People in Guangzhou took their household rubbish to the outskirts of the city where it was buried for several weeks before being put out on the fields.
near Shanghai peasants dumped so much broken glass that they could not walk across the fields and bare feet
Others broke up the mud floors of their huts and their brick stoves and even pulled down their mud walls to use as fertilizer
in many places the entire harvest was seized, sometimes officials reported a harvest so big that even after taking away everything they could including all livestock, vegetables and cash crops they still continued to search from house to house