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The Transformation of Rural China.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (269 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781315292038
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Transformation of Rural ChinaDDC classification:
  • 307.72/0951
LOC classification:
  • HN733.5 \.
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I-The Countryside Under Mao -- Chapter 1 State Power and the Villages -- Chapter 2 The Rural "Class" System in the Mao Era -- Chapter 3 The Cultural Revolution in the Villages -- Chapter 4 Ideology and the Rural Work Community: The Utopian Dream and Its Demise -- II-The Post-Mao Countryside -- Chapter 5 Disbanding Collective Agriculture -- Chapter 6 Leaving the Villages -- Chapter 7 The Emergence of Private Entrepreneurship and New Classes -- Chapter 8 Local Governments and Private Enterprise: A Case Study -- Chapter 9 Poverty in the Rural Hinterlands: The Conundrums of Underdevelopment -- Chapter 10 The Kaleidoscopic Politics of Rural China -- Chapter 11 Assessing the Post-Mao Period -- A Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Here, Professor Unger presents a vivid picture of life in rural areas during the Maoist revolution,and then after the post-Mao disbandment of the collectives. A story of unexpected continuities amidst great change, Unger describes how rural administrations retain Maoist characteristics.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I-The Countryside Under Mao -- Chapter 1 State Power and the Villages -- Chapter 2 The Rural "Class" System in the Mao Era -- Chapter 3 The Cultural Revolution in the Villages -- Chapter 4 Ideology and the Rural Work Community: The Utopian Dream and Its Demise -- II-The Post-Mao Countryside -- Chapter 5 Disbanding Collective Agriculture -- Chapter 6 Leaving the Villages -- Chapter 7 The Emergence of Private Entrepreneurship and New Classes -- Chapter 8 Local Governments and Private Enterprise: A Case Study -- Chapter 9 Poverty in the Rural Hinterlands: The Conundrums of Underdevelopment -- Chapter 10 The Kaleidoscopic Politics of Rural China -- Chapter 11 Assessing the Post-Mao Period -- A Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Here, Professor Unger presents a vivid picture of life in rural areas during the Maoist revolution,and then after the post-Mao disbandment of the collectives. A story of unexpected continuities amidst great change, Unger describes how rural administrations retain Maoist characteristics.

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