Peasants and Revolution in Rural China : Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949 - Chang Liu

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Peasants and Revolution in Rural China

Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949

By: Chang Liu

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Hardcover | 16 May 2007 | Edition Number 1

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274 Pages

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This book explores rural political change in China from 1850 to 1949 to help us understand China's transformation from a weak, decaying agrarian empire to a unified, strong nation-state during this period.

Based on local gazetteers, contemporary field studies, government archives, personal memoirs and other primary sources, it systematically compares two key macro-regions of rural China - the North China plain and the Yangzi delta - to demonstrate the ways in which the forces of political change, shaped by different local conditions, operated to transform the country. It shows that on the North China plain, the village community composed mainly of owner-cultivators was the focal point for political mobilization, whilst in the Yangzi delta absentee landlordism was exploited by the state for local control and tax extraction. However, these both set the stage, in different ways, for the communist mobilization in the first half of the twentieth century.

Peasants and Revolution in Rural China is an important addition to the literature on the history of the Chinese Revolution, and will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand the course of Chinese social and political development.

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'Chang Liu's excellent study of peasants and social change in the century before the end of the War of Resistance builds on intellectual foundation, but by way of a research design goes to the next stage' - The China Journal, January 2008

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History Asian History Specific Events & Topics in History Revolutions, Uprisings, Rebellions Politics & Government Political Activism Revolutionary Groups & Movements Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Post War 20th Century History after 1945

Economics Political Ideologies & Movements Society & Culture Social Groups Ethnic Studies

Comparison of Rural Communities between the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta
State and Rural Society in the Late Qing
Mobilization and Reorganization of Village Communities in North China
The State and North China Villages in a Changing World
The Communists and North China Villages
Social Structure and Local Politics in the Yangzi Delta
State and Society in the Yangzi Delta Countryside: The Republican Period
The Communists and the Yangzi Delta Countryside
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Peasants and Revolution in Rural China

Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949

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