Gao Village Rural Life in Modern China

Name: Gao Village Rural Life in Modern China
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ISBN: 9780824831929

ISBN-10: 0824831926

ISBN-13: 9780824831929

Edition: 2007

Authors: Mobo C. F. Gao

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 7/31/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 6.35" wide x 8.48" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.836

Mobo Gao is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Adelaide Confucius Institute at the University of Adelaide. He is the author of Gao Village; A Portrait of Rural Life in Modern China (1999) and Mandarin Chinese: An Introduction (2000).

Maps	p. vii
Preface and Acknowledgements	p. xi
The Study of Rural China and the Case of Gao Village	p. 1
The Setting	p. 4
Land, Water and Local Politics	p. 11
Population and Politics	p. 25
Living Standards	p. 42
Rural Health	p. 72
Rural Education	p. 92
The Great Leap Forward	p. 122
The Cultural Revolution	p. 142
Reforms since the Late 1970s	p. 171
Migrant Workers	p. 200
Change and Continuity: Culture and Customs	p. 223
Gao Village and the Outside World	p. 246
Conclusion	p. 255
Appendixes
Bibliography of works on rural studies referred to in Chapter 1	p. 265
Statistical tables	p. 268
Select glossary of terms used in text; with Chinese characters	p. 277
Index	p. 283
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