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Village China Under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948-2008
Huaiyin Li
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Description for Village China Under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948-2008
Hardback. Drawing on the original documents from local agricultural collectives, newly accessible government archives, and the author's fieldwork in Qin village of the Jiangsu province, this book examines the experiences of Chinese villagers during the collective and reform periods. Num Pages: 424 pages, 9 tables, 3 figures, 10 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW3; HBLX; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
Village China Under Socialism and Reform offers a comprehensive account of rural life after the communist revolution, detailing villager involvement in political campaigns since the 1950s, agricultural production under the collective system, family farming and non-agricultural economy in the reform, and everyday life in the family and community. Li's rich examination draws on original documents from local agricultural collectives, newly accessible government archives, and his own fieldwork in Qin village of Jiangsu province to highlight the continuities in rural transformation. Firmly disagreeing with those who claim that recent developments in rural China represent a radical break with pre-reform sociopolitical practices ... Read more
Village China Under Socialism and Reform offers a comprehensive account of rural life after the communist revolution, detailing villager involvement in political campaigns since the 1950s, agricultural production under the collective system, family farming and non-agricultural economy in the reform, and everyday life in the family and community. Li's rich examination draws on original documents from local agricultural collectives, newly accessible government archives, and his own fieldwork in Qin village of Jiangsu province to highlight the continuities in rural transformation. Firmly disagreeing with those who claim that recent developments in rural China represent a radical break with pre-reform sociopolitical practices ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804759748
SKU
V9780804759748
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About Huaiyin Li
Huaiyin Li teaches modern Chinese history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the author of Village Governance in North China, 1875-1936 (Stanford, 2005)
Reviews for Village China Under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948-2008
"Throughout the book, Li skillfully interweaves contextual information and quantitative data recovered from documents rarely explored by students of contemporary China . . . [T]his is a well designed and admirably executed work that sets a new standard for the study of the political economy of rural China. Readers will find it informative and inspiring."
Journal of Chinese Political ... Read more "Drawing on intensive fieldwork in his native village, Huaiyin Li's book is the first to reconstruct and analyze the grassroots political economy of a Chinese village in the Maoist and post-Mao periods. Well written and insightful, it illuminates what Chinese farmers have faced in their daily lives."
Jonathan Unger, Director, Contemporary China Center
Australian National University
"The book is a sequel to the author's well-received 2005 monograph, Village Governance in North China, 1875-1936 (Stanford University Press). Together, these two extraordinarily detailed works have done a great deal to illuminate the interior dynamics of Chinese rural political economy in the late 19th and 20th centuries."
Thomas D. Curran "There is a burgeoning literature tracing change and continuity in post-revolutionary China. This book is among the best of that field. Using a rare, comprehensive collection of village accounts, records, and cadres' diaries, a series of interviews conducted during lengthy visits over a period of 14 years, and a level of access and familiarity afforded him as a native-born villager, Huaiyin Li has reconstructed the political economic history of Qin village, in central Jiangsu, between the Maoist and post-Mao periods . . . Well-written, strongly argued, and based on impressive analysis of fine-grained empirical evidence, this undoubtedly is one of the best case-studies of China's rural political economy in the latter part of the 20th century. It makes a major contribution to our understanding of political-economic trends throughout this turbulent period of history, and will serve as an important source of information for scholars and students alike."
Sally Sargeson
East Asia: An International Quarterly
"Huaiyin Li provides a comprehensive and systematic study of rural life after the founding of PRC . . . [T]he book is refreshing in its theoretical perspective, compelling in its arguments and meticulous in the extensive details it presents of peasants' lives and production in rural China."
Jin Di
China Quarterly
"Based upon extensive use of rare local documentation as well as the author's intimate familiarity with his own local community, this well-crafted analysis of rural evolutionary transformation in east-central China deserves a wide reading."
CHOICE "The book is the product of impeccable scholarship, a combination of rigorous archival research and extensive fieldwork. Huaiyin Li's firsthand knowledge and personal connections have enabled him to probe a village community's 'informal and often invisible structures', and he has persuasively demonstrated the critical role that those 'subinstitutions' have played in determining the direction of Party-peasant relations in Qin village, a microcosm of village China, during the PRC's first 60 years."
Pauline Keating
The China Journal
"Various scholarly projects have attempted to give an orderly account of the rural political-economy of post-1949 China, yet this book is one of the most systematic so far. . . The book builds up on a clear structure that offers a comprehensive scope of intellectual inquiry and a systematic analysis of empirical data. Attested by successive awards (e.g., the 2009 Cecil B. Currey Book Award, and the 2010 Robert W. Hamilton Award), the book is a must-read for students of modern Chinese politics!"
Mingde Wang
Frontiers of History in China
"Based on a wonderfully detailed and documented case study of Qin village located within Dongtai County of Jiangsu province (now Dongtai Municipality), Huaiyin Li opens a genuinely new window on the trials, travails, and successes of many local places in rural China and joins these to an equally effective analysis of some of the greater forces under which rural places in China pragmatically operated from the revolution to 2008."
Gregory Veeck Show Less
Journal of Chinese Political ... Read more "Drawing on intensive fieldwork in his native village, Huaiyin Li's book is the first to reconstruct and analyze the grassroots political economy of a Chinese village in the Maoist and post-Mao periods. Well written and insightful, it illuminates what Chinese farmers have faced in their daily lives."
Jonathan Unger, Director, Contemporary China Center
Australian National University
"The book is a sequel to the author's well-received 2005 monograph, Village Governance in North China, 1875-1936 (Stanford University Press). Together, these two extraordinarily detailed works have done a great deal to illuminate the interior dynamics of Chinese rural political economy in the late 19th and 20th centuries."
Thomas D. Curran "There is a burgeoning literature tracing change and continuity in post-revolutionary China. This book is among the best of that field. Using a rare, comprehensive collection of village accounts, records, and cadres' diaries, a series of interviews conducted during lengthy visits over a period of 14 years, and a level of access and familiarity afforded him as a native-born villager, Huaiyin Li has reconstructed the political economic history of Qin village, in central Jiangsu, between the Maoist and post-Mao periods . . . Well-written, strongly argued, and based on impressive analysis of fine-grained empirical evidence, this undoubtedly is one of the best case-studies of China's rural political economy in the latter part of the 20th century. It makes a major contribution to our understanding of political-economic trends throughout this turbulent period of history, and will serve as an important source of information for scholars and students alike."
Sally Sargeson
East Asia: An International Quarterly
"Huaiyin Li provides a comprehensive and systematic study of rural life after the founding of PRC . . . [T]he book is refreshing in its theoretical perspective, compelling in its arguments and meticulous in the extensive details it presents of peasants' lives and production in rural China."
Jin Di
China Quarterly
"Based upon extensive use of rare local documentation as well as the author's intimate familiarity with his own local community, this well-crafted analysis of rural evolutionary transformation in east-central China deserves a wide reading."
CHOICE "The book is the product of impeccable scholarship, a combination of rigorous archival research and extensive fieldwork. Huaiyin Li's firsthand knowledge and personal connections have enabled him to probe a village community's 'informal and often invisible structures', and he has persuasively demonstrated the critical role that those 'subinstitutions' have played in determining the direction of Party-peasant relations in Qin village, a microcosm of village China, during the PRC's first 60 years."
Pauline Keating
The China Journal
"Various scholarly projects have attempted to give an orderly account of the rural political-economy of post-1949 China, yet this book is one of the most systematic so far. . . The book builds up on a clear structure that offers a comprehensive scope of intellectual inquiry and a systematic analysis of empirical data. Attested by successive awards (e.g., the 2009 Cecil B. Currey Book Award, and the 2010 Robert W. Hamilton Award), the book is a must-read for students of modern Chinese politics!"
Mingde Wang
Frontiers of History in China
"Based on a wonderfully detailed and documented case study of Qin village located within Dongtai County of Jiangsu province (now Dongtai Municipality), Huaiyin Li opens a genuinely new window on the trials, travails, and successes of many local places in rural China and joins these to an equally effective analysis of some of the greater forces under which rural places in China pragmatically operated from the revolution to 2008."
Gregory Veeck Show Less