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Village China Under Socialism and Reform offers a comprehensive account of rural life after the communist revolution, detailing villager involvement in politica

This portrait of social change in the North China plain depicts how the world of the Chinese peasant evolved during an era of war and how it in turn shaped the

For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist t

This book explores the link between the everyday relations of gender and the reform of the rural political economy in the 1980's, and argues that the reconstitu

Drawing on the original documents from local agricultural collectives, newly accessible government archives, and the author's fieldwork in Qin village of the Ji