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In vividly dramatic form, this play tells how a remote Chinese
village comes to terms with Communism. Every revolution creates new
words. The Chinese revolution created a whole new vocabulary in
which a very important word is "fanshen" which literally means "to
turn the body" or "to turn over." To hundreds of millions of
landless and poor peasants it means to stand up, throw off the
landlords' yoke, and gain land, stock, and houses. Moreover it
means to enter a new world and this play is the story of how the
peasants of Long Bow build a new world.2 women, 7 men
More than forty years after its initial publication, William
Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those
fascinated with China's revolutionary process of rural reform and
social change. A pioneering work, Fanshan is a marvelous and
revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where
tradition and modernity have had both a complimentary and caustic
relationship in the years since the Chinese Communist Party first
came to power. It is a rare, concrete record of social struggle and
transformation, as witnessed by a participant. Fanshen continues to
offer profound insight into the lives of peasants and China's
complex social processes. Rediscover this classic volume, which
includes a new preface by Fred Magdoff.
The Great Reversal is the first critical study of the widely
heralded reforms currently transforming China's economy. From his
long experience in Chinese agriculture, Hinton first examines the
course of agricultural reform over the past decade, then looks at
its consequences in different areas of the countryside and
considers its implications for the country as a whole. He raises
troubling questions about China's capitalist future-the growing
landlessness, increasing inequality, and above all, the destruction
of the nation's natural resources and the collectively built
infrastructure that was the great achievement of the revolution. In
so doing he sheds new light on the sources of discontent behind the
demonstrations that culminated in the Tiananmen massacre of June
1989. Recognized inside and outside China as an expert on the
country's agriculture, Hinton spent five or six months there every
year but one since 1978, when the wave of reform was first
introduced. He witnessed the events of June 1989 first hand. This
experience gives authority to an analysis that digs deeper and more
widely than anything else available. His essays open up a new
perspective on Mao and his successors, one that has been totally
obscured by the Western media.
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