Gao Village
Subtitle: a portrait of rural life in modern China
By: Mobo C. F. Gao.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Villages -- China -- Gao Village (Jiangxi Sheng) -- Case studies.; Gao Village (Jiangxi Sheng, China) -- Social conditions -- Case studies.; Jiangxi Sheng (China) -- Rural conditions -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Other titles: Rural life in modern China.
Description: "This book is about Gao Village, in Jiangxi province, where the author was born and brought up, leaving when he was twenty-one to study English at Xiamen University. Since emigrating to Australia in 1990, he has returned every year to Gao Village, where his brother still lives.".

"Several accounts of village life in China have been published, but all have been by Western or urban Chinese scholars. Mobo Gao's account is in every sense one from the inside. Though written as an academic work, it does not eschew personal stories and experiences relevant to the themes addressed.

These cover a forty-year period and fall into four distinct themes; the village before and after land reform; the commune system; the dismantling of the communes; and the unfolding impact of the market economy, including increased migration to urban areas, from the late 1980s onwards."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.