The transformation of rural China / Jonathan Unger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Unger, Jonathan.

Series:

Asia and the Pacific (Armonk, N.Y.)

Asia and the Pacific

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and agriculture.

China--Rural conditions.

China.

Rural conditions.

China--History--1949-.

History.

Villages--China.

Villages.

Communism and agriculture--China.

Physical Description:

ix, 256 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2002]

Summary:

Drawing on a quarter century of interviews with farmers and rural officials from various parts of China, leading China specialist Jonathan Unger tracks the extraordinary changes that have swept the countryside from the Mao era through the Deng era to the present day. He explores those changes from the multiple perspectives of political, social, and economic transformation, showing how each aspect impacts the others.

Contents:

I The Countryside Under Mao

Chapter 1 State Power and the Villages 7

Chapter 2 The Rural "Class" System in the Mao Era 29

Chapter 3 The Cultural Revolution in the Villages 49

Chapter 4 Ideology and the Rural Work Community: The Utopian Dream and Its Demise 73

II The Post-Mao Countryside

Chapter 5 Disbanding Collective Agriculture 95

Chapter 6 Leaving the Villages 119

Chapter 7 The Emergence of Private Entrepreneurship and New Classes 131

Chapter 8 Local Governments and Private Enterprise: A Case Study 147

Chapter 9 Poverty in the Rural Hinterlands: The Conundrums of Underdevelopment 171

Chapter 10 The Kaleidoscopic Politics of Rural China 197

Chapter 11 Assessing the Post-Mao Period 223.

Notes:

"An East gate book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-251) and index.

ISBN:

0765605511

076560552X

OCLC:

48834748