Prosperity's Predicament

Identity, Reform, and Resistance in Rural Wartime China

• Author(s): Isabel Brown Crook, Christina Kelley Gilmartin,
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Pages: 336
• ISBN_10: 1442225750
  ISBN_13: 9781442225756
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Asia / China , History / Social History , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Regional Studies , Social Science / Sociology / Rural ,

Description:... This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read and debated for what it reveals about China's rural dynamics as well as the nature of state power, markets, the military, social relations, and religion. Built on extraordinarily intimate and detailed research in a Sichuan village that Isabel Crook began in 1940, the book provides an unprecedented history of Chinese rural life during the war with Japan. It is an essential resource for all scholars of contemporary China.