Two-Dimensional People: Lives, Desires, and Social Attitudes in a Changing Chinese Village

ISBN-13: 9781032403540 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 392 str.

Tan Tongxue

Opis

Based on almost eight years of fieldwork in a town and a village in South China, this book analyzes contradictions among various dimensions of the peasant economy, social relationships, popular religion, and local politics in rural China.

Spis treści

Part I Text 1. An Ancient Confucian Village  2. A Centralist Cadre  3. A Peasant Boss  4. Two Intellectuals  5. An Authoritarian Official  6. An Ordinary Peasant  7. The Younger Generation  Part II Reflections  8. The Paradox of Transition  9. From the Past to the Present

O autorze

Tan Tongxue is a Professor at the School of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University, China. His research interests include studies of peasant economies, village morality, grass-roots politics, and social consciousness. He is also the author of Way of Bridge Village, published in China, 2010.