Drawing on more than a quarter century of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the contested relationship between village and state from the 1960s to the start of the twenty-first century. The authors provide a vivid portrait of how resilient villagers struggle to survive and prosper in the face of state power in two epochs of revolution and reform. Highlighting the importance of intra-rural resistance and rural-urban conflicts to Chinese politics and society in the Great Leap and Cultural Revolution, the authors go on to depict the dynamic changes that have transformed village China in the post-Mao era. This book continues the dramatic story in the authors’ prizewinning Chinese Village, Socialist State. Plumbing previously untapped sources, including interviews, archival materials, village records and unpublished memoirs, diaries and letters, the authors capture the struggles, pains and achievements of villagers across three generations of social upheaval.
Author(s): Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz, Mark Selden
Series: Yale Agrarian Studies
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 369
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
1. Prelude......Page 12
2. Back from the Brink......Page 17
3. Memory and Myth......Page 39
4. Socialist Education......Page 57
5. A Whiff......Page 70
6. Riding High......Page 82
7. The Stench......Page 95
8. Whatever Chairman Mao Says......Page 123
9. War Communism......Page 143
10. Sprouts of Reform......Page 180
11. Stalemate......Page 203
12. Tremors......Page 227
13. Earthquakes......Page 251
14. Reform......Page 269
15. Reform and Its Discontents......Page 291
Appendix of Tables......Page 316
List of Abbreviations......Page 330
Notes......Page 332
Index
......Page 352
