UID:
almafu_9960119542702883
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1 online resource (xiv, 358 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-60778-4
Content:
This landmark study of Zengbu, a Cantonese community, is the first comprehensive analysis of a rural Chinese society by foreign anthropologists since the Revolution in 1949. Jack and Sulamith Potter examine the revolutionary experiences of Zengbu's peasant villagers and document the rapid changeover from Maoist to post-Maoist China. In particular, they seek to explain the persistence of the deep structure of Chinese culture through thirty years of revolutionary praxis. The authors assess the continuities and changes in rural China, moving from the traditional social organization and cultural life of the pre-revolutionary period through the series of large-scale efforts to implement planned social change which characterized Maoism - land reform, collectivization, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. They examine in detail late Maoist society in 1979-80 and go on to describe and analyse the extraordinary changes of the post-Mao years, during which Zengbu was decollectivized, and traditional customs and religious practices reappeared.
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List of illustrationsList of tablesPrefaceNotes on the text1. The old feudal order: Zengbu before liberation2. Establishing the new order3. The ordeal of collectivization4. The Cultural Revolution5. Maoist society: the production team6. Maoist society: the brigade7. Maoist society: the commune8. Decollectivization: transition to the post-Mao period9. The cultural construction of emotion in rural Chinese social life10. Marriage, household, and family form11. Chinese birth planning: a cultural account12. Lineage and collective: structure and praxis13. Party organization14. The party ethic: a devotion born of distress and enthusiasm15. A caste-like system of social stratification: the position of peasants in modern China's social order16. The Chinese peasants and the world capitalist system17. The crystallization of post-Mao society: Zengbu in 1985ReferencesIndex.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-35787-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-35521-4
Language:
English
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https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511607783
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