Crook, Isabel.

Prosperity's predicament : identity, reform, and resistance in rural wartime China / Identity, reform, and resistance in rural wartime China Isabel Brown Crook and Christina Kelley Gilmartin with Yu Xiji ; compiled and edited by Gail Hershatter and Emily Honig. - 1 online resource (337 pages) - Asia/Pacific/perspectives .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Insiders -- The market way of life -- Living off the land: farm labor -- Not far afield: family survival strategies -- Lineages, landlords, and the local body politic -- The paoge and informal power -- Part II. Outsiders -- Wartime reformers -- Taking health care public -- Marriage: reformed and unreformed -- Of money and men -- Trial of strength.

9781442225756 (e-book)


Rural development--China.


Daxing Zhen (Chongqing, China)--Economic conditions--20th century.
Daxing Zhen (Chongqing, China)--Social conditions--20th century.


Electronic books.

HN960 / .C76 2013eb

306.0951/38