Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Map of Cheng Village -- Kinship Charts -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Text -- 1 An Ancient Confucian Village -- The Old Village -- New Houses -- Township Officials -- Village Cadres -- Clan Elders -- The Masses -- Notes -- 2 A Centralist Cadre -- Rising to Prominence -- Returning to the Village -- In Power -- Hard Times -- Living Out His Days -- Closing the Casket -- Notes -- 3 A Peasant Boss -- Participating in Politics -- Escaping Poverty -- Getting Rich
Enjoying the Pleasures of Life -- Settling Down at Home -- True Self -- Notes -- 4 Two Intellectuals -- Heading the Household -- The Dark Counselor -- Warm and Full (Just Getting By) -- Kin -- Village Affairs -- Body and Mind -- Notes -- 5 An Authoritarian Official -- Village Enterprises -- Urban Construction -- Digging -- Governmental Businesspeople -- Joining a Faction -- Officials' Luck -- Notes -- 6 An Ordinary Peasant -- Freedom -- Struggling -- Fairness -- The Three Religions -- One God -- Nature and Fate -- Notes -- 7 The Younger Generation -- Investing -- Working -- Hanging Out
Stewardship of the Land -- Schooling -- Life and Pulse -- Notes -- Part II Reflections -- 8 The Paradox of Transition -- Smallholders -- Agriculture and Industry -- Rule -- The Self -- Beliefs -- People's Lives -- Notes -- 9 From the Past to the Present -- The Two Dimensions -- The Sagely and the Secular -- Trapped -- Governing the Country -- Managing the Household -- Establishing One's Destiny -- Notes -- References -- Index
