Dazhai

alternative Tachai

1. A town in Xiyang, Jinzhong, Shanxi, China, formerly a township.

   The term “shanzhai” also riffs off a popular Cultural Revolution era slogan about a model village, Dazhai, which has been changed to read: “In agriculture learn from Dazhai, in industry learn from Shanzhai.”

   2009 February 6, Tyra Dempster, Ben Blanchard, “"Sham glam" sweeps China as fakes get trendy”, in Miral Fahmy, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2023, Lifestyle

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   In 1964 a new policy emerged, which continued until about 1978 within the context of greater state support to agriculture. The origins of the policy go back to February 1960 in Hsi-yang county and the small village of Ta-chai. In that year Ch’en Yung-kuei, the production team leader of Ta-chai, reported to the Shansi Communist Party Congress how his village had raised crop yields to unprecedentedly high and stable levels through a new kind of team spirit and organization.

   [1980, Ramon H. Myers, “The Development of the Socialist Economy”, in The Chinese Economy Past and Present, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 216