Chinese Village, Socialist State

This book is a vivid portrayal of achievements and disasters over a quarter century of unprecedented turmoil in rural China as the Communist party wooed, won, and then lost the hearts of Chinese villagers. Basing their study on twenty visits over ten years to rural China plus unique archival data, the authors show how powerholders and villagers clashed or combined in making social revolution, building a repressive state, and trying to create or block socialism.