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How the farmers changed China : power of the people / Kate Xiao Zhou ; with a foreword by Edward Friedman
Bib ID 1446272
Format BookBook
Author
Zhou, Kate Xiao, 1956-
 
Description Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996 
xxviii, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 0813326818 (hc : alk. paper)  0813326826 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
Series

Transitions--Asia and Asian America

Summary

In this original and provocative book, Kate Zhou argues that Chinese farmers rather than the communist leadership have been the driving force behind their country's phenomenal economic growth and social change. Guided by their own interests rather than by directives from Beijing, farmers in effect have been privatizing land, creating new markets, establishing rural industries, migrating to cities, shaping their own family-size policy, and redefining the role of women. Drawing on rich primary sources and her own years of experience in the countryside, the author focuses on local initiatives and the stories of ordinary people, arguing that the farmers were effective precisely because their movement was spontaneous, leaderless, non-ideological, and apolitical. Yet, their "reform from below" may well lead to the most long-lasting and fundamental changes contemporary China has witnessed.

Full contents
  • Foreword / Edward Friedman
  • 1. Introduction: Who Changed China?
  • 2. The "Feudalization" of Chinese Farmers: Bound to the Land
  • 3. Baochan Daohu: Breaking the Log Jam
  • 4. Markets: The Currents in the Farmer Sea
  • 5. Rural Industries: Waves of the Farmer Sea
  • 6. Migration: The Countryside Swamps the City
  • 7. Farmers Engulf the One-Child Family Policy
  • 8. Rural Women: Floating to Power
  • 9. Conclusion: Farmers Changed China
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-257) and index.

Subjects Farmers - China - Economic conditions.  |  Rural industries - China.  |  Rural women - China.  |  China - Economic conditions - 1976-2000.

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