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First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of women in China. In her history of the women's movement in China from the late nineteenth century onwards, Professor Croll provides an opportunity to study its construction, its ideological and structural development over a number of decades, and its often ambiguous relationship with a parallel movement to establish socialism. Based on a variety of material including eye witness accounts, the author examines a wide range of fundamental issues, including women's class and oppression, the relation of women's solidarity groups to class organisations, reproduction and the accommodation of domestic labour, women in the labour process, and the relationship between women's participation in social production and their access to and control of political and economic resources. The book includes excerpts from studies of village and communal life, documents of the women's movement and interviews with members of the movement.
The relationships between humans and their natural surroundings is paradoxical. They impose knowledge and action on the world around them, yet at the same time subscribe to myths and beliefs which portray them and their natural suroundings as inseparable, with neither more powerful than the other. This paradox is explored in the essays in Bush Base: Forest Farm, which uses an anthropological perpective to direct new light on development and environmental studies. The contributors, all anthropologists who have had practical experience of development programmes, present case studies drawn form Africa and Asia, and reflect upon their theoretical implications. They reject the traditional sharp dichotomies of human settelemnt and external natural environment - farm of camp on the one hand, and forest or bush on the other - and suggest instead that the people, their indigenous knowledge and their forests or bush exist within each other. They argue that although the concept of sustainable development takes greater cognisance of the environment there is still a need to place at their centre and appreciation of people's cosmologies and cultural understandings.
First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of women in China. In her history of the women's movement in China from the late nineteenth century onwards, Professor Croll provides an opportunity to study its construction, its ideological and structural development over a number of decades, and its often ambiguous relationship with a parallel movement to establish socialism. Based on a variety of material including eye witness accounts, the author examines a wide range of fundamental issues, including women's class and oppression, the relation of women's solidarity groups to class organisations, reproduction and the accommodation of domestic labour, women in the labour process, and the relationship between women's participation in social production and their access to and control of political and economic resources. The book includes excerpts from studies of village and communal life, documents of the women's movement and interviews with members of the movement.
The mesmerizing potential of 1.3 billion customers has long
constituted 'a magic market' for foreign entrepreneurs who once
again are queuing to take advantage of China's fast-growing economy
and rapidly changing society. Now, to counter a growing reliance on
the markets of the world for exports, China's government too has
turned to developing its own domestic markets by placing the
expansion of domestic demand high on the nation's agenda. This book
explores China's consumer revolution over the past three decades
and shows a continuing cycle leading to excess supply and
disappointing demand at the center of which lies exaggerated
expectations of China's new consumers.
The mesmerizing potential of 1.3 billion customers has long
constituted 'a magic market' for foreign entrepreneurs who once
again are queuing to take advantage of China's fast-growing economy
and rapidly changing society. Now, to counter a growing reliance on
the markets of the world for exports, China's government too has
turned to developing its own domestic markets by placing the
expansion of domestic demand high on the nation's agenda. This book
explores China's consumer revolution over the past three decades
and shows a continuing cycle leading to excess supply and
disappointing demand at the center of which lies exaggerated
expectations of China's new consumers.
Much has been written on China's peasant revolution, less has been written of the peasant experience of reform. Since 1979, when the first major reforms were introduced into China's villages, there have been many shifts and changes in the translation and practice of reform policies. Consequently, many of the initial assumptions and judgements made by observers, analysts and participants have been modified over the years. It is not so much that the implications of the reforms for lives, practices and policies have become clearer, as that they have become increasingly paradoxical and various. Elisabeth Croll examines the images, policies and experiences of development, and links the peasants' experience of revolution and reform with their conceptualizations of time and change. She combines a study of the dreams of development as sets of rhetorical lens - through which peasant populations perceive collective family and individual experiences - with an analysis of rural development policies and reforms at the centre of which lies the peasant household. She also examines the new and recent desires which motivate peasant households in China.
Elizabeth Croll's "From Heaven to Earth" examines the images,
policies and experiences of development in China, and more
specifically shows how the peasant experience of revolution and
reform has been greatly affected by their conceptualizations of
time and change. Beginning with the first major reforms introduced
into China's villages in 1979, numerous changes have been made in
the translation and practice of reform policies. These reforms have
in fact become so paradoxical and various, that analysts have had
to modify their initial judgments of these complex changes over the
years.
In the People's Republic of China the redefinition of the procedures and symbols of marriage formed one of the main means by which the State has attempted to create major changes in the relations between the sexes, the generations and between domestic and kin groups. In this detailed anthropological study, first published in 1981, Dr Elisabeth Croll examines the changes which have taken place with the institution of marriage between the early 1950s and the late 1970s. She observes the changes in the criteria governing choice of spouse, negotiation procedures, the age of marriage and its ritual and ceremonial forms. This book is based on both documentary sources and research visits to the People's Republic. As an anthropological approach to marriage it raises broader conceptual questions on the relations of marriage to kinship structures, and the interaction of economy and ideology in processes of social change.
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