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Author Li, Huaiyin, author.

Title Village China under socialism and reform : a micro history, 1948-2008 / Huaiyin Li
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2009]
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Contents List of Illustrations; Notes on Weights, Measures, and Currency; Administrative Changes in Qin Village; Preface; 1. Introduction; Part One. Deference and Defiance in the 1950s; 2. Interest, Identity, and Ideology: The Collectivization of Agriculture; 3. "People's Disturbances": Resistance to Agricultural Collectivization; 4. The Great Leap Forward and Its Aftermath; Part Two. Power and Control Under Socialism; 5. "Rightful Weapons": Political Participation Under the Collective; 6. The Cultural Revolution: A Multifaceted Experience
7. The Reach of the State: Rural Control During the Cultural RevolutionPart Three. Individuals, the Family, and the Collective; 8. Everyday Strategies for Team Farming; 9. The Family Cycle and Income Disparity; 10. Agricultural Growth and Social Change; Part Four. The Reform Era; 11. Decollectivization; 12. The Retreat of the State: Village Politics and Community Life; 13. From Government to Governance; 14. Conclusion; Notes; References; List of Characters; Index
Summary Village China Under Socialism and Reform offers a comprehensive account of rural life after the communist revolution, detailing villager involvement in political campaigns since the 1950's, agricultural production under the collective system, family farming and non-agricultural economy in the reform, and everyday life in the family and community. Li's rich examination draws on original documents from local agricultural collectives, newly accessible government archives, and his own fieldwork in Qin village of Jiangsu province to highlight the continuities in rural transformation. Firmly disagreeing with those who claim that recent developments in rural China represent a radical break with pre-reform sociopolitical practices and patterns of production, Li instead draws a clear history connecting the current situation to ecological, social, and institutional changes that have persisted from the collective era
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 16, 2015)
Subject Peasants -- China -- Jiangsu Sheng -- History
Agriculture and state -- China -- Jiangsu Sheng -- History
Collectivization of agriculture -- China -- Jiangsu Sheng -- History
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Agriculture and state
Collectivization of agriculture
Peasants
Politics and government
Rural conditions
SUBJECT Jiangsu Sheng (China) -- Rural conditions
Jiangsu Sheng (China) -- Politics and government
Subject China -- Jiangsu Sheng
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804771078
0804771073
080475974X
9780804759748