{"product_id":"cadres-and-kin-making-a-socialist-village-in-west-china-19211991-9780804741293","title":"Cadres and Kin Making a Socialist Village in West","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuilding on ethnographic research in a rural village in Sichuan, this book examines changing relationships between social organization, politics, and economy during the 20th century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Free of jargon, full of interesting anecdotes, thoughtful, well-written, and short, \u003ci\u003eCadres and Kin\u003c\/i\u003e deserves serious consideration as an introductory text on modern China. . . . The book is clearly informed by both recent anthropological theory and the latest ethnographic and historical work on 20th-century China.\" -- \u003ci\u003eChina Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This brief but thoughtful book . . . is unusual in combining a picture of the post-1978 village with a longer narrative of twentieth-century state building and village formation.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Abbreviations and measures  1. A topography of the past: shaping a township landscape in the early twentieth century  2. Alliance and antagonism: family associations in an era of insecurity  3. Creating a new village order: revolutionizing identity through liberation and land reform  4. getting organized: struggling with collectivism  5. Village as enterprise: corporate community management in the Deng Era  6. A topography of the present: shaping a village landscape in the late twentieth century  Appendix: Qiaolou Village Compact  Notes  Character list  Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405545120087,"sku":"9780804741293","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804741293.jpg?v=1730492784","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cadres-and-kin-making-a-socialist-village-in-west-china-19211991-9780804741293","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}