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001 2011045915
003 DLC
005 20111118102509.0
008 111104s2012 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011045915
020 $a9781107024045 (hardback)
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050 00 $aHC427.9$b.B73 2012
082 00 $a330.951/05$223
084 $aHIS003000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aBrown, Jeremy,$d1976-
245 10 $aCity versus countryside in Mao's China :$bnegotiating the divide /$cJeremy Brown.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2012.
263 $a1206
300 $ap. cm.
520 $a"A powerful work of grassroots history showing how China's rural-urban divide can be traced back to the policies of Mao Zedong, which pitted city dwellers against villagers"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"The gap between those living in the city and those in the countryside remains one of China's most intractable problems. As this powerful work of grassroots history argues, the origins of China's rural-urban divide can be traced back to the Mao Zedong era. While Mao pledged to remove the gap between the city worker and the peasant, his revolutionary policies misfired and ended up provoking still greater discrepancies between town and country, usually to the disadvantage of villagers. Through archival sources, personal diaries, untapped government dossiers, and interviews with people from cities and villages in northern China, the book recounts their personal experiences, showing how they retaliated against the daily restrictions imposed on their activities while traversing between the city and the countryside. Vivid and harrowing accounts of forced and illicit migration, the staggering inequity of the Great Leap Famine, and political exile and deportation during the Cultural Revolution reveal how Chinese people fought back against policies that pitted city dwellers against villagers"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The city leads the village: governing Tianjin in the early 1950s; 2. Eating, moving, and working; 3. Tianjin's great leap: urban survival, rural starvation; 4. The great downsizing of 1961-1963; 5. The four cleanups and urban youth in Tianjin's hinterland; 6. Purifying the city: the deportation of political outcasts during the Cultural Revolution; 7. Neither urban nor rural: in-between spaces in the 1960s and 1970s; 8. Staging Xiaojinzhuang: the urban occupation of a model village, 1974-1978; epilogue.
651 0 $aChina$xEconomic conditions$y1949-1976$xRegional disparities.
650 0 $aRural-urban divide$zChina.
650 0 $aRural-urban relations$zChina.
650 0 $aTianjin (China)$xSocial conditions.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Asia / General$2bisacsh.