Title: Prosperity's predicament : identity, reform, and resistance in rural wartime China /
Authors: Crook, Isabel,; Gilmartin, Christina K.,; Yu, Xiji, 1914-2006,; Hershatter, Gail; Honig, Emily,; Hershatter, Gail,; Honig, Emily,; Gilmartin, Christina K.; Yu, Xiji, 1914-2006.; Hershatter, Gail.; Honig, Emily.
Year: 2013
Subjects: Daxing Zhen (Chongqing, China) Social conditions; Daxing Zhen (Chongqing, China) Economic conditions
Abstract: "This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read and debated for what it reveals about China's rural dynamics as well as the nature of state power, markets, the military, social relations, and religion. Built on extraordinarily intimate and detailed research in a Sichuan village that Isabel Crook began in 1940, the book provides an unprecedented history of Chinese rural life during the war with Japan. It is an essential resource for all scholars of contemporary China." -- Publisher's website.
Contents: Part I. Insiders -- The market way of life -- Living off the land: farm labor -- Not far afield: family survival strategies -- Lineages, landlords, and the local body politic -- The paoge and informal power -- Part II. Outsiders -- Wartime reformers -- Taking health care public -- Marriage: reformed and unreformed -- Of money and men -- Trial of strength.