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Author Brown, Jeremy, 1976- author.

Title City versus countryside in Mao's China : negotiating the divide / Jeremy Brown
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) : maps
Contents Introduction -- 1. The city leads the village: governing Tianjin in the early 1950s -- 2. Eating, moving, and working -- 3. Tianjin's great leap: urban survival, rural starvation -- 4. The great downsizing of 1961-1963 -- 5. The four cleanups and urban youth in Tianjin's hinterland -- 6. Purifying the city: the deportation of political outcasts during the Cultural Revolution -- 7. Neither urban nor rural: in-between spaces in the 1960s and 1970s -- 8. Staging Xiaojinzhuang: the urban occupation of a model village, 1974-1978 -- Epilogue
Summary "A powerful work of grassroots history showing how China's rural-urban divide can be traced back to the policies of Mao Zedong, which pitted city dwellers against villagers"-- Provided by publisher
"The gap between those living in the city and those in the countryside remains one of China's most intractable problems. As this powerful work of grassroots history argues, the origins of China's rural-urban divide can be traced back to the Mao Zedong era. While Mao pledged to remove the gap between the city worker and the peasant, his revolutionary policies misfired and ended up provoking still greater discrepancies between town and country, usually to the disadvantage of villagers. Through archival sources, personal diaries, untapped government dossiers, and interviews with people from cities and villages in northern China, the book recounts their personal experiences, showing how they retaliated against the daily restrictions imposed on their activities while traversing between the city and the countryside. Vivid and harrowing accounts of forced and illicit migration, the staggering inequity of the Great Leap Famine, and political exile and deportation during the Cultural Revolution reveal how Chinese people fought back against policies that pitted city dwellers against villagers"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Rural-urban divide -- China
Rural-urban relations -- China
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
Economic history -- Regional disparities
Rural-urban divide
Rural-urban relations
Social conditions
SUBJECT China -- Economic conditions -- 1949-1976 -- Regional disparities
Tianjin (China) -- Social conditions
Subject China
China -- Tianjin
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