Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I-The Countryside Under Mao; Chapter 1 State Power and the Villages; Chapter 2 The Rural ""Class"" System in the Mao Era; Chapter 3 The Cultural Revolution in the Villages; Chapter 4 Ideology and the Rural Work Community: The Utopian Dream and Its Demise; II-The Post-Mao Countryside; Chapter 5 Disbanding Collective Agriculture; Chapter 6 Leaving the Villages; Chapter 7 The Emergence of Private Entrepreneurship and New Classes; Chapter 8 Local Governments and Private Enterprise: A Case Study
Chapter 9 Poverty in the Rural Hinterlands: The Conundrums of UnderdevelopmentChapter 10 The Kaleidoscopic Politics of Rural China; Chapter 11 Assessing the Post-Mao Period; A Selected Bibliography; Index