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Cadres and kin : making a socialist village in West China, 1921-1991

Author: Gregory A Ruf
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Building on ethnographic research in a rural village in Sichuan, China's most populous province, this book examines changing relationships between social organization, politics, and economy during the twentieth century. Offering a wealth of empirical data on township and village life during the pre-Communist 1930s and 1940s, the decades of collectivism, and the present era of post-Mao reforms, the author explores the  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Case studies
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Gregory A Ruf
ISBN: 0804733775 9780804733779 0804735336 9780804735339
OCLC Number: 38833126
Description: xvii, 249 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: A topography of the past: shaping a township landscape in the early twentieth century --
Alliance and antagonism: family associations in an era of insecurity --
Creating a new village order: revolutionizing identity through liberation and land reform --
Getting organized: struggling with collectivism --
Village as enterprise: corporate community management in the Deng era --
A topography of the present: shaping a village landscape in the late twentieth century.
Responsibility: Gregory A. Ruf.
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Building on ethnographic research in a rural village in Sichuan, China's most populous province, this book examines changing relationships between social organization, politics, and economy during the twentieth century. Offering a wealth of empirical data on township and village life during the pre-Communist 1930s and 1940s, the decades of collectivism, and the present era of post-Mao reforms, the author explores the historical development of a local state regime he characterizes as managerial corporatism.

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