Village China under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948-2008

摘要

Huanyin Li provides a comprehensive and systematic study of rural life after the founding of PRC. Drawing on villagers' oral narratives and scarce village-level materials such as account books, records of meetings, village cadre notebooks and official documents from Qin village in Dongtai municipality, Jiangsu province, Li traces the history of the village, and rural China more generally, from 1948 to 2008. The 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.