China's peasants : the anthropology of a revolution /

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Author / Creator: Potter, Sulamith Heins.
Other Authors / Creators:Potter, Jack M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • List of tables
  • Preface
  • Notes on the text
  • 1. The old "feudal" order: Zengbu before Liberation
  • 2. Establishing the new order
  • 3. The ordeal of collectivization
  • 4. The Cultural Revolution
  • 5. Maoist society: the production team
  • 6. Maoist society: the brigade
  • 7. Maoist society: the commune
  • 8. Impatient aspirations: transition to the post-Mao period
  • 9. The cultural construction of emotion in rural Chinese social life
  • 10. Marriage, household, and family form
  • 11. Chinese birth planning: a cultural account
  • 12. Lineage and collective: structure and praxis
  • 13. Party organization
  • 14. The party ethic: a devotion born of distress and enthusiasm
  • 15. A caste-like system of social stratification: the position of peasants in modern China's social order
  • 16. The Chinese peasants and the world capitalist system
  • 17. The crystallization of post-Mao society: Zengbu in 1985
  • References
  • Index