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Rural development in China : prospect and retrospect / Fei Hsiao-tung ; with a foreword by Tang Tsou.
Van Pelt Library HN740.Z9 C6374 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fei, Xiaotong.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural development--China--Case studies.
- Cities and towns--China--Case studies.
- Cities and towns.
- Rural conditions.
- Rural development.
- China.
- Villages--China--Case studies.
- Villages.
- China--Rural conditions--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 240 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989.
- Summary:
- Fei Hsiao-tung's Peasant Life in China (E.P. Dutton, 1939) is now a classic in the study of Chinese rural life. In this field study of Kaihsienkung (Kaixian'gong), a village in his native Wujiang county, Jiangsu province, he developed the theme that, due to a huge population and the scarcity of cultivable land, Chinese peasants derived a substantial part of their income from household sideline and handicraft industries. When these declined for one reason or another, the peasants' standard of living declined as well; some sold their land and left for the cities.
- Notes:
- "Portions of this book were originally published in Chinese village close-up (1983) and Small towns in China (1986) by New World Press, Beijing"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 0226239594
- 0226239608
- OCLC:
- 19325542
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