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Peasants and Revolution in Rural China - Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949 (Paperback)
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Peasants and Revolution in Rural China - Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
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This book explores rural political change in China from 1850 to
1949 to help us understand China's transformation from a weak,
decaying agrarian empire to a unified, strong nation-state during
this period. Based on local gazetteers, contemporary field studies,
government archives, personal memoirs and other primary sources, it
systematically compares two key macro-regions of rural China - the
North China plain and the Yangzi delta - to demonstrate the ways in
which the forces of political change, shaped by different local
conditions, operated to transform the country. It shows that on the
North China plain, the village community composed mainly of
owner-cultivators was the focal point for political mobilization,
whilst in the Yangzi delta absentee landlordism was exploited by
the state for local control and tax extraction. However, these both
set the stage, in different ways, for the communist mobilization in
the first half of the twentieth century. Peasants and Revolution in
Rural China is an important addition to the literature on the
history of the Chinese Revolution, and will be of interest to
anyone seeking to understand the course of Chinese social and
political development.
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