City Versus Countryside in Mao's China: Negotiating the Divide

ISBN-13: 9781107024045 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 268 str.

British Columbia) Jeremy Brown (Simon Fraser University

Opis

A powerful work of grassroots history, tracing China's rural-urban divide back to the policies of Mao Zedong, which pitted city dwellers against villagers.

Recenzje

'… City versus Countryside in Mao's China: Negotiating the Divide is a compelling, skillfully crafted study that presents a challenge to scholars who might hold a more positive view of the Mao era … the book has much to offer students of modern Chinese history, especially those interested in the post-Great Leap Forward period, and has big implications for understanding the origins of anti-rural discrimination in China today.' Kristen E. Looney, China Review International

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The city leads the village: governing Tianjin in the early 1950s; 2. Eating, moving, and working; 3. Tianjin's great leap: urban survival, rural starvation; 4. The great downsizing of 1961–3; 5. The four cleanups and urban youth in Tianjin's hinterland; 6. Purifying the city: the deportation of political outcasts during the Cultural Revolution; 7. Neither urban nor rural: in-between spaces in the 1960s and 1970s; 8. Staging Xiaojinzhuang: the urban occupation of a model village, 1974–8; Epilogue.