The Transformation of Rural China (Asia and the Pacific) - Hardcover

Unger, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765605511 ISBN 13: 9780765605511

Verlag: Routledge, 2002

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Book by Unger Jonathan

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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.

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The author of this work has repeatedly interviewed farmers and rural officials from various parts of China in order to keep in close touch with changes that have been sweeping the country-side from the Mao era through the Deng era to the present day Jiang era. The book explores the extraordinary changes of the past forty years from the multiple perspectives of political, social, and economic transformation, showing how each impacts upon the other. The overarching theme is that the Maoist credo penetrated the villages and had a profound influence on village life and mores and attitudes, to a considerably greater degree than is commonly believed today.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0765605511
• ISBN 13: 9780765605511
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 270