| The Transformation of Rural China Contributor(s): Unger, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0765605511 ISBN-13: 9780765605511 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2002 Annotation: Drawing on a quarter century of interviews with farmers and rural officials from various parts of China, leading China specialist Jonathan Unger tracks the extraordinary changes that have swept the countryside from the Mao era through the Deng era to the present day. He explores those changes from the multiple perspectives of political, social, and economic transformation, showing how each aspect impacts the others. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Rural - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Regional Studies |
| Dewey: 307.720 |
| LCCN: 02017527 |
| Series: Asia and the Pacific |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.42" W x 9.28" (1.19 lbs) 188 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |