Cadres and kin
Subtitle: making a socialist village in West China, 1921-1991
By: Gregory A. Ruf.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Villages -- China -- Case studies; Villages -- China -- History -- 20th century; Communism -- China -- History -- 20th century; Socialism -- China -- History -- 20th century
Description: Building on ethnographic research in a rural village in Sichuan, China's most populous province, this book examines changing relationships between social organization, politics, and economy during the twentieth century.

Offering a wealth of empirical data on township and village life during the pre-Communist 1930s and 1940s, the decades of collectivism, and the present era of post-Mao reforms, the author explores the historical development of a local state regime he characterizes as managerial corporatism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-233) and index.