Peasants and Revolution in Rural China: Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949 - Rilegato

Liu, Chang

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ISBN 10: 0415421764 ISBN 13: 9780415421768

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2007

Riassunto

This book explores rural political change in China from 1850 to 1949 to help us understand China’s transformation from a weak, decaying agrarian empire to a unified, strong nation-state during this period.

Based on local gazetteers, contemporary field studies, government archives, personal memoirs and other primary sources, it systematically compares two key macro-regions of rural China – the North China plain and the Yangzi delta – to demonstrate the ways in which the forces of political change, shaped by different local conditions, operated to transform the country. It shows that on the North China plain, the village community composed mainly of owner-cultivators was the focal point for political mobilization, whilst in the Yangzi delta absentee landlordism was exploited by the state for local control and tax extraction. However, these both set the stage, in different ways, for the communist mobilization in the first half of the twentieth century.

Peasants and Revolution in Rural China is an important addition to the literature on the history of the Chinese Revolution, and will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand the course of Chinese social and political development.

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Recensione

'Chang Liu's excellent study of peasants and social change in the century before the end of the War of Resistance builds on intellectual foundation, but by way of a research design goes to the next stage' - The China Journal, January 2008

L'autore

Chang Liu is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for New Political Economy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0415421764
• ISBN 13: 9780415421768
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 258