Rural Development in China : Prospect and Retrospect by Hsiao-tung Fei (1989, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226239608
ISBN-139780226239606
eBay Product ID (ePID)72175
Product Key Features
Number of Pages247 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRural Development in China : Prospect and Retrospect
Publication Year1989
SubjectPublic Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, General, Public Policy / Regional Planning
TypeTextbook
AuthorHsiao-Tung Fei
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight8.9 Oz
Item Length0.8 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN89-030716
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal307.1/412/0951
Table Of ContentForeword by Tang Tsou Chinese Village Close-Up Kaixian'gong Revisited Present Day Kaixian'gong Small Towns in China Small Towns, Great Significance Probing Deeper into Small Towns Small Towns in Northern Jiangsu Small Towns in Central Jiangsu Fifty Years of a Chinese Village
SynopsisThis collection of essays written from 1947-1986 by Fei Hsiao-tung, China's most distinguished sociologist and anthropologist, presents a rich and representative sampling of the research that has characterized his long career. In 1936, Fei conducted field work in Kaixian'gong, a village in Jiangsu province in east China. This village became the subject of his now classic study Peasant Life in China , in which he argued that, because of China's huge population and the scarcity of cultivable land, household industries such as production of raw silk were vital to the peasants' economic survival. His conclusions, long rejected by China's policymakers, have recently been embraced by the government under the political leadership of Deng Xiaopeng. Returning to Kaixian'gong in 1957 and again in the 1980s, Fei examined the changes that had occurred since his initial research. Three essays that resulted from these follow-up studies are included in this collection, providing a rare summary and analysis of developments in the village between 1936 and 1986. Also included here are four articles based on Fei's 1983-84 research in other areas of Jiangsu province. His explorations of the contrast between the wealth of southern Jiangsu and the long-standing poverty of the northern half of the province address key issues of public policy in China today. Useful to students of rural sociology as well as of Chinese history, politics, economics, and anthropology, this collection will provide an overview not only of developments in the small towns of China but also of Fei's thought.
LC Classification NumberHN740.Z9C6374 1989
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