{"product_id":"chinas-peasants-the-anthropology-of-a-revolution-hardback-9780521355216","title":"China's Peasants; The Anthropology of a Revolution (Hardback) 9780521355216","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eChina's Peasants\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Anthropology of a Revolution\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSulamith Heins Potter (Author), Jack M. Potter (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521355216, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 March 1990\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages, 41 b\/w illus.  13 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 2.6 cm, 0.672 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"As one of the first major ethnographic investigations of rural society in the People's Republic, Potter and Potter's book deserves widespread attention....an impressive ethnography.  It should be of interest to all who study rural China, regardless of disciplne.\"   Andrew B. Kipnis, Journal of Asian and African Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis landmark study of Zengbu, a Cantonese community, is the first comprehensive analysis of a rural Chinese society by foreign anthropologists since the Revolution in 1949. Jack and Sulamith Potter examine the revolutionary experiences of Zengbu's peasant villagers and document the rapid changeover from Maoist to post-Maoist China. In particular, they seek to explain the persistence of the deep structure of Chinese culture through thirty years of revolutionary praxis. The authors assess the continuities and changes in rural China, moving from the traditional social organization and cultural life of the pre-revolutionary period through the series of large-scale efforts to implement planned social change which characterized Maoism - land reform, collectivization, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. They examine in detail late Maoist society in 1979–80 and go on to describe and analyse the extraordinary changes of the post-Mao years, during which Zengbu was decollectivized, and traditional customs and religious practices reappeared.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of tables\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Notes on the text\u003cbr\u003e 1. The old feudal order: Zengbu before liberation\u003cbr\u003e 2. Establishing the new order\u003cbr\u003e 3. The ordeal of collectivization\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Cultural Revolution\u003cbr\u003e 5. Maoist society: the production team\u003cbr\u003e 6. Maoist society: the brigade\u003cbr\u003e 7. Maoist society: the commune\u003cbr\u003e 8. Decollectivization: transition to the post-Mao period\u003cbr\u003e 9. The cultural construction of emotion in rural Chinese social life\u003cbr\u003e 10. Marriage, household, and family form\u003cbr\u003e 11. Chinese birth planning: a cultural account\u003cbr\u003e 12. Lineage and collective: structure and praxis\u003cbr\u003e 13. Party organization\u003cbr\u003e 14. The party ethic: a devotion born of distress and enthusiasm\u003cbr\u003e 15. A caste-like system of social stratification: the position of peasants in modern China's social order\u003cbr\u003e 16. The Chinese peasants and the world capitalist system\u003cbr\u003e 17. The crystallization of post-Mao society: Zengbu in 1985\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20anthropology,%20ethnography%20%5BJHMC%5D%22\"\u003eJHMC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005585346840,"sku":"9780521355216","price":52.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521355216i_3f7af5c3-3f5a-4eb0-b31d-98bd8e34d83c.jpg?v=1691375616","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/chinas-peasants-the-anthropology-of-a-revolution-hardback-9780521355216","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}