people's commune

Calque of Chinese 人民公社 (rénmín gōngshè).

people's commune (plural people's communes)

1. 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.