The Peasant in Postsocialist China: History, Politics, and Capitalism

Introduction: peasants, history, and politics 1. The peasantry and social stagnation: the roots of the reform-era liberal narrative 2. From peasant to citizen: liberal narratives on peasant dependency 3. Capitalism and the peasant: new left narratives 4. 'Deconstructing modernization': Wen Tiejun and 'Sannong wenti' 5. Into the soil: ethnographies of social disintegration 6. New rural reconstruction and the attempt to organize the peasantry Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index.