Model Rebels
Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of China's Richest Village
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780520225336
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Economic history; Marxism & Communism; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Economic Conditions; Crime; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Yu, Zuomin; Business/Economics; China; Peasantry; Political Science / General; Daqiu Zhuang; Daqiu Zhuang (China); Political activity
First sentence: Once you pass the pear orchards and vegetable fields of suburban Tianjin on your way south toward the village of Daqiu, the landscape changes suddenly.
Description: "A tale of rural rebellion unfolds in Bruce Gilley's moving chronicle of a village on the northern China plains during the post-1978 economic reform era. Gilley examines how Daqiu Village, led by Yu Zuomin, a charismatic Communist Party secretary and president of the local industrial conglomerate, became the richest village in China and a model for the rural reforms of the 1980s and early 1990s.

A growing campaign of political resistance led to increasing tensions between the villagers and the Chinese state, and eventually, in an event that made headlines around the world, an armed confrontation between the village and higher authorities backed by paramilitary police brought Yu Zuomin and his village crashing down."--BOOK JACKET.