China's Peasants: The Anthropology of a Revolution

by Jack M. Potter and Sulamith Heins Potter

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This landmark study of Zengbu, a Cantonese community, is the first comprehensive analysis of a rural Chinese society by foreign anthropologists since the Revolution in 1949. Jack and Sulamith Potter examine the revolutionary experiences of Zengbu's peasant villagers and document the rapid changeover from Maoist to post-Maoist China. In particular, they seek to explain the persistence of the deep structure of Chinese culture through thirty years of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:052135787X

ISBN13:9780521357876

Release Date:March 1990

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:376 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Anthropology Asia China Cultural History Minority Studies Politics & Social Sciences Rural Social Science Social Sciences

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