188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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During the past quarter century Jonathan Unger has interviewed farmers and rural officials from various parts of China in order to track the extraordinary changes that have swept the countryside from the Maoist era through the Deng era to the present day. A leading specialist on rural China, Professor Unger presents a vivid picture of life in rural areas during the Maoist revolution, and then... Read more
Section I. The Countryside Under Mao 1. State Power and the Villages 2. The Rural "Class" System in the Mao Era 3. The Cultural Revolution in the Villages 4. Ideology and the Rural Work Community: The Utopian Dream and Its Demise Section II. The Post-Mao Countryside 5. Disbanding Collective Agriculture 6. Leaving the Villages 7. The Emergence of Private Entrepreneurship and New Classes 8. Local Governments and Private Enterprise: A Case Study 9. Poverty in the Rural Hinterlands: The Conundrums of Underdevelopment 10. The Kaleidoscopic Politics of Rural China 11. Assesing the Post - Mao period Bibliography Index
Biography
Authored by Unger, Jonathan
