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Xiaorong Han explores how Chinese intellectuals envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century. Politi

The Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800-1949) offers a concise but comprehensive examination of the political, military, economic, social, and cultural

This book offers historical and comparative analyses of changes in agrarian society forced by the globalization of capitalism, and the implications of these cha

The gap between those living in the city and those in the countryside remains one of China's most intractable problems. As this powerful work of grassroots hist

The role of the peasant in society has been fundamental throughout China's history, posing difficult, much-debated questions for Chinese modernity. Today, as Ch