Rural Development in China Prospect and Retrospect
- List Price: $51.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Edition: 74
- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- Publish date: 07/01/1989
Description:
Fei Hsiao-tung's Peasant Life in China (E.P. Dutton, 1939) is now a classic in the study of Chinese rural life. In this field study of Kaihsienkung (Kaixian'gong), a village in his native Wujiang county, Jiangsu province, he developed the theme that, due to a huge population and the scarcity of cultivable land, Chinese peasants derived a substantial part of their income from household sideline and handicraft industries. When these declined for one reason or another, the peasants' standard of living declined as well; some sold their land and left for the cities.
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