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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) Loot Price: R939
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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)

Chang Liu

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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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
Release date: April 2009
First published: 2007
Authors: Chang Liu
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-54422-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Revolutions & coups
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN: 0-415-54422-X
Barcode: 9780415544221

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