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City Versus Countryside in Mao's China - Negotiating the Divide (Paperback)
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City Versus Countryside in Mao's China - Negotiating the Divide (Paperback)
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The gap between those living in the city and those in the
countryside remains one of China's most intractable problems. As
this powerful work of grassroots history argues, the origins of
China's rural-urban divide can be traced back to the Mao Zedong
era. While Mao pledged to remove the gap between the city worker
and the peasant, his revolutionary policies misfired and ended up
provoking still greater discrepancies between town and country,
usually to the disadvantage of villagers. Through archival sources,
personal diaries, untapped government dossiers, and interviews with
people from cities and villages in northern China, the book
recounts their personal experiences, showing how they retaliated
against the daily restrictions imposed on their activities while
traversing between the city and the countryside. Vivid and
harrowing accounts of forced and illicit migration, the staggering
inequity of the Great Leap Famine, and political exile and
deportation during the Cultural Revolution reveal how Chinese
people fought back against policies that pitted city dwellers
against villagers.
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