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Shows how Chinese intellectuals with varying politics envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century.

Xiaorong Han explores how Chinese intellectuals envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century. Politically motivated intellectuals, both Communist and non-Communist, believed that rural peasants and their villages would be at the heart of change during this long period of national crisis. Nevertheless, intellectuals saw themselves as the true shapers of change who would transform and use the peasantry. Han uses intellectuals'' writings to provide a comprehensive look at their views of the peasantry. He shows how intellectuals with varying politics created images of the peasant-a supposed contemporary image and an ideal image of the peasant transformed for political ends, how intellectuals theorized on the nature of Chinese rural life, and how intellectuals conceived their own relationships with peasants.

Chinese Discourses on the Peasant 19001949 SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

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      Publisher: State University Press of New York (SUNY)
      Publication Date: 1/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780791463208, 978-0791463208
      ISBN10: 0791463206

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Shows how Chinese intellectuals with varying politics envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century.

      Xiaorong Han explores how Chinese intellectuals envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century. Politically motivated intellectuals, both Communist and non-Communist, believed that rural peasants and their villages would be at the heart of change during this long period of national crisis. Nevertheless, intellectuals saw themselves as the true shapers of change who would transform and use the peasantry. Han uses intellectuals'' writings to provide a comprehensive look at their views of the peasantry. He shows how intellectuals with varying politics created images of the peasant-a supposed contemporary image and an ideal image of the peasant transformed for political ends, how intellectuals theorized on the nature of Chinese rural life, and how intellectuals conceived their own relationships with peasants.

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