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The peasant in postsocialist China : history, politics, and capitalism /

"The role of the peasant in society has been fundamental throughout China's history, posing difficult, much-debated questions for Chinese modernity. Today, as China becomes an economic superpower, the issue continues to loom large. Can the peasantry be integrated into a new Chinese capital...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Day, Alexander F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Peasants, history, and politics
  • 1 The peasantry and social stagnation: the roots of the reform-era liberal narrative
  • The revolutionary peasant dialectic
  • Petty-bourgeois peasant conservatism and the critique of agrarian socialism at the beginning of the reform era
  • Peasant dependency and the Asiatic state
  • Suzhi, peasants, and technocracy
  • Conclusion
  • 2 From peasant to citizen: liberal narratives on peasant dependency
  • Peasants and the history of modernization
  • Populism and the politics of modernization
  • Primitive accumulation
  • Conclusion
  • 3 Capitalism and the peasant: new-left narratives
  • Institutional innovation: TVEs and the emergence of the new left
  • Conclusion
  • 4 "Deconstructing modernization": Wen Tiejun and "sannong wenti"
  • Wen Tiejun and the emergence of "sannong wenti"
  • History and sannong wenti
  • Contemporary rural crisis and market dominance
  • Formalism and substantivism in China? Wen Tiejun and Lin Yifu
  • Sannong wenti goes public
  • Li Changping and peasant migration
  • Migrants pushed and pulled: the expansion of Wen´s critique
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Into the soil: ethnographies of social disintegration
  • Cao Jinqing and the disintegration of rural society
  • Rural governance: the central China "xiangtupai"
  • The nativization of social science and a left-leaning stance on rural China
  • China peasant survey
  • Conclusion
  • 6 New rural reconstruction and the attempt to organize the peasantry
  • Organizing the peasantry to defend their rights
  • New rural reconstruction
  • The present as opportunity
  • "Rendering rural society knowledgeable" and the "ruralization of knowledge"
  • The new cooperative movement
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index.