City versus countryside in Mao's China : negotiating the divide /

"A powerful work of grassroots history showing how China's rural-urban divide can be traced back to the policies of Mao Zedong, which pitted city dwellers against villagers"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brown, Jeremy, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
1949-1976
Rural-urban divide > China.
Rural-urban relations > China.
Relations villes-campagnes > Chine.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Comparative.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
Economic history > Regional disparities.
Rural-urban divide.
Rural-urban relations.
Social conditions
China > Economic conditions > 1949-1976 > Regional disparities.
Tianjin (China) > Social conditions.
Chine > Conditions économiques > 1949-1976 > Disparités régionales.
China.
China > Tianjin.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The city leads the village: governing Tianjin in the early 1950s
  • 2. Eating, moving, and working
  • 3. Tianjin's great leap: urban survival, rural starvation
  • 4. The great downsizing of 1961-1963
  • 5. The four cleanups and urban youth in Tianjin's hinterland
  • 6. Purifying the city: the deportation of political outcasts during the Cultural Revolution
  • 7. Neither urban nor rural: in-between spaces in the 1960s and 1970s
  • 8. Staging Xiaojinzhuang: the urban occupation of a model village, 1974-1978
  • Epilogue.

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