Chen Village Under Mao and Deng, Expanded and Updated Edition
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Book Overview
The first two editions of Chen Village presented an enthralling account of a Chinese village in the throes of Maoist revolution followed by dramatic changes in village life and local politics during... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520081099
ISBN13:9780520081093
Release Date:October 1992
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:345 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"
Customer Reviews
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Excellent
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Everything was well. The book got here in a week and 1/2, just in time. It was in good conditions. so all good.
China in a nutshell
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
It's remarkable that this book is not better known. So often, even good scholarship on Chinese social, political, and economic policy is described on a grand, macro scale.Chen Village shows how CCP policies since 1949 transformed the lives of one village's inhabitants, making those policies infinitely more understandable. It's one thing to study the Cultural Revolution, for example, but to see how it shaped and even destroyed the social and community fabric of one group of people is more revealing than any other approach I have seen. Chen village does it with clear writing and expert scholarship, and I can't recommend it enough to specialist or generalist alike.
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Rather amazed to find this book unreviewed. There are many grand overviews of Chinese history, but this is one of the few books that takes you to the grassroots where the massive changes in Chinese society have been occurring. It also one of the few books written by China experts that avoids forcing the authors' views down the reader's throat. A unique piece of scholarship.
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