" This timely and important collection of original essays analyzes China’s foremost social cleavage: the rural-urban gap. It is now clear that the Chinese communist revolution, though professing dedication to an egalitarian society, in practice created a rural order akin to serfdom, in which 80 percent of the population was effectively bound to the land. China is still struggling with that legacy. The reforms of 1978 changed basic aspect ..."
" This timely and important collection of original essays analyzes China’s foremost social cleavage: the rural-urban gap. It is now clear that the Chinese communist revolution, though professing dedication to an egalitarian society, in practice created a rural order akin to serfdom, in which 80 percent of the population was effectively bound to the land. China is still struggling with that legacy. The reforms of 1978 changed basic aspect ..."
" This timely and important collection of original essays analyzes China’s foremost social cleavage: the rural-urban gap. It is now clear that the Chinese communist revolution, though professing dedication to an egalitarian society, in practice created a rural order akin to serfdom, in which 80 percent of the population was effectively bound to the land. China is still struggling with that legacy. The reforms of 1978 changed basic aspect ..."
Contemporary Tibet Politics, Development and Society in a Disputed Region by Barry Sautman , June Teufel Dreyer 368 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-315-28999-1, ISBN: 1-315-28999-7
Spaces Of Their Own(1st Edition) Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China (Public Worlds) by Mayfair Mei Yang Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1999 by Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3146-9, ISBN: 0-8166-3146-8