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Model rebels : the rise and fall of China's richest village / Bruce Gilley.
LIBRA HC428.T23 G54 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilley, Bruce, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yu, Zuomin.
- Peasants.
- Crime.
- Political participation.
- Daqiu Zhuang (China)--Economic conditions.
- Daqiu Zhuang (China).
- Yu, Zuomin--Political activity.
- Crime--China--Daqiuzhuang.
- Peasants--China--Daqiuzhuang.
- China--Daqiu Zhuang.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 219 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- A portentous tale of rural rebellion unfolds in Bruce Gilley's moving chronicle of a village on the northern China plains during the post-1978 economic reform era. Gilley examines how Daqiu Village, led by Yu Zuomin, a charismatic Communist Party secretary and president of the local industrial conglomerate, became the richest village in China and a model for the rural reforms of the 1980s and early 1990s. A growing campaign of political resistance led to increasing tensions between the villagers and the Chinese state. Eventually, in an event that made headlines around the world, an armed confrontation between the village and higher authorities backed by paramilitary police brought Yu Zuomin and his village crashing down.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520225325
- 0520225333
- OCLC:
- 43397138
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