Gao Village : a portrait of rural life in modern China / Mobo C. F. Gao
- Bib ID:
- 1402907
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gao, Mobo C. F., 1952-
- Description:
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- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1999
- xiv, 286 p. : ill., 3 maps ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0824821238 (alkaline paper)
- Summary:
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This book is about Gao Village, in Jiangxi province, where the author was born and brought up, leaving when he was twenty-one to study English at Xiamen University. Since emigrating to Australia in 1990, he has returned every year to Gao Village, where his brother still lives. Several accounts of village life in China have been published, but all have been by Western or urban Chinese scholars. Mobo Gao's account is in every sense one from the inside. Though written as an academic work, it does not eschew personal stories and experiences relevant to the themes addressed. These cover a forty-year period and fall into four distinct themes; the village before and after land reform; the commune system; the dismantling of the communes; and the unfolding impact of the market economy, including increased migration to urban areas, from the late 1980s onwards.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Study of Rural China and the Case of Gao Village
- 2. The Setting
- 3. Land, Water and Local Politics
- 4. Population and Politics
- 5. Living Standards
- 6. Rural Health
- 7. Rural Education
- 8. The Great Leap Forward
- 9. The Cultural Revolution
- 10. Reforms since the Late 1970s
- 11. Migrant Workers
- 12. Change and Continuity: Culture and Customs
- 13. Gao Village and the Outside World
- 14. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Subtitle on cover: Rural life in modern China
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1999
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