1st Edition
Peasants and Revolution in Rural China Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949
By Chang Liu
Copyright 2007
272 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores rural political change in China from 1850 to 1949 to help us understand China’s transformation from a weak, decaying agrarian empire to a unified, strong nation-state during this period.
Based on local gazetteers, contemporary field studies, government archives, personal memoirs and other primary sources, it systematically compares two key macro-regions of rural China – the... Read more
1. Comparison of Rural Communities between the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta 2. State and Rural Society in the Late Qing 3. Mobilization and Reorganization of Village Communities in North China 4. The State and North China Villages in a Changing World 5. The Communists and North China Villages 6. Social Structure and Local Politics in the Yangzi Delta 7. State and Society in the Yangzi Delta Countryside: The Republican Period 8. The Communists and the Yangzi Delta Countryside
Biography
Chang Liu is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for New Political Economy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
'Chang Liu's excellent study of peasants and social change in the century before the end of the War of Resistance builds on intellectual foundation, but by way of a research design goes to the next stage' - The China Journal, January 2008
