Book of Donmon Teith

In this innovative book, Daniel Little compares the positions of various social scientists regarding debates in China studies. Little focuses on four topics: th

A radical new appraisal of the role of the peasant in post-socialist China, putting recent debates into historical perspective.

This is a study of peasant-state relations and village politics as they have evolved in response to the state's attempts to control the division of the harvest

From 1979-1989 rural life in China was transformed: communes were dismantled and government domination eased. From field work in Hubei and south-central China,

The author presents a convincing new interpretation of the origins and nature of the agrarian crisis that gripped the North China Plain in the two centuries bef