Will the boat sink the water? : the life of China's peasants / Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao ; translated from Chinese by Zhu Hong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chen, Guidi.

Contributor:

Chun, Tao.

Standardized Title:

Zhongguo nong min diao cha. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peasants--China.

Rural development--China.

China--Rural conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Public Affairs, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>A prize-winning investigative exposé of the poverty and injustice experienced by China's 900 million peasants, told through a series of dramatic personal narratives.</div>

Contents:

contents; authors' preface; introduction; post-liberation time line of events important to chinese peasants, with emphasis on agriculture; 1 the martyr; 2 the village tyrant; 3 the long and the short of the "antitax uprising"; 4 the long road; 5 a vicious circle; 6 the search for a way out; about the authors and translator; translator's acknowledgment; index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-58648-539-3

9786613073396

1-283-07339-0

OCLC:

712016005