sub-commune

plural sub-communes

1. alternativeAlternative form of subcommune.

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   Not only the larger cities are setting up urban communes, even the small, remote places are doing so, for example, Haikung city on Hainan Island set up an urban commune with four sub-communes and nineteen factories during the first ten days of June, 1960,³ while it is reported that Hailaerh city in Inner Mongolia set up three urban communes at Hsiangchun, Chengyang and Ch'iaot'ou by using educational, planning, organizational, consolidating and elevating methods to carry out the Party call for the establishment of communes and set them up in thirty-five days because, it is said, they could not wait any longer.⁴

   1962, Shih Ch'eng-chih, “Urban Communes and Natural Calamities”, in Urban Commune Experiments Communist China, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, published 1974, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 123–124