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Author_Jonathan Unger
Bird's Eye
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Central Government
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chen
Chen Village
China Studies Field
China's Hainan Province
Chinese agrarian reform
Chinese Government
collective agriculture history
Cultural Revolution Turmoil
Dazhai System
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Fengyang County
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Impoverished Villages
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Lower Middle Peasants
Mao Study
migration labor dynamics
officials
Operated Family Firms
post-socialist transformation
Radical Maoist Policies
rural class stratification
rural economic policy analysis
rural sociology
Task Rate System
Team Heads
Township Government
Township Level Offices
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Village Government
Village Party Secretary
Village Representative Assemblies
Violate
West Germany
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Young Men
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Product details
- ISBN 9780765605528
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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During the past quarter century Jonathan Unger has interviewed farmers and rural officials from various parts of China in order to track the extraordinary changes that have swept the countryside from the Maoist era through the Deng era to the present day. A leading specialist on rural China, Professor Unger presents a vivid picture of life in rural areas during the Maoist revolution, and then after the post-Mao disbandment of the collectives. This is a story of unexpected continuities amidst enormous change. Unger describes how rural administrations retain Mao-era characteristics - despite the major shifts that have occurred in the economic and social hierarchies of villages as collectivization and "class struggle" gave way to the slogan "to get rich is glorious." A chapter explores the private entrepreneurship that has blossomed in the prosperous parts of the countryside. Another focuses on the tensions and exploitation that have arisen as vast numbers of migrant laborers from poor districts have poured into richer ones. Another, based on five months of travel by jeep into impoverished villages in the interior, describes the dilemmas of under-development still faced by many tens of millions of farmers, and the ways in which government policies have inadvertently hurt their livelihoods.
