1st Edition
Two-Dimensional People Lives, Desires, and Social Attitudes in a Changing Chinese Village
By Tan Tongxue
Copyright 2023
392 Pages
29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
392 Pages
29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
392 Pages
29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Based on almost eight years of fieldwork in a town and a village in South China, this book analyzes contradictions among various dimensions of the peasant economy, social relationships, popular religion, and local politics in rural China.
Compared to many anthropological, sociological, and political studies of rural China, which regard Chinese peasants as one-dimensionally materialistic,... Read more
Part I Text 1. An Ancient Confucian Village 2. A Centralist Cadre 3. A Peasant Boss 4. Two Intellectuals 5. An Authoritarian Official 6. An Ordinary Peasant 7. The Younger Generation Part II Reflections 8. The Paradox of Transition 9. From the Past to the Present
Biography
Tan Tongxue is a Professor at the School of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University, China. His research interests include studies of peasant economies, village morality, grass-roots politics, and social consciousness. He is also the author of Way of Bridge Village, published in China, 2010.
