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Prosperity's predicament : identity, reform, and resistance in rural wartime China / Isabel Brown Crook and Christina Kelley Gilmartin with Yu Xiji ; compiled and edited by Gail Hershatter and Emily Honig.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crook, Isabel.
- Series:
- Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
- Asia/Pacific/perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural development--China.
- Rural development.
- Daxing Zhen (Chongqing, China)--Economic conditions--20th century.
- Daxing Zhen (Chongqing, China).
- Daxing Zhen (Chongqing, China)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read and debated for what it reveals about China's rural dynamics as well as the nature of state power, markets, the military, social relations, and religion. Built on extraordinarily intimate and detailed research in a Sichuan village that Isabel Crook began in 1940, the book provides an unprecedented history of Chinese rural life during the war with Japan. It is an essential resource for all scholars of contemporary China.
- Contents:
- Part I. Insiders
- The market way of life
- Living off the land: farm labor
- Not far afield: family survival strategies
- Lineages, landlords, and the local body politic
- The paoge and informal power
- Part II. Outsiders
- Wartime reformers
- Taking health care public
- Marriage: reformed and unreformed
- Of money and men
- Trial of strength.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4422-2575-0
- OCLC:
- 868956602
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