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Liu, Xin, 1957-

In one's own shadow : an ethnographic account of the condition of post-reform rural China / Xin Liu. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000. - xvi, 245 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and index.

1. Exotic familiarity -- Part 1. The culture of predicament: the uses of confusion -- 2. Resisting ideology -- 3. Marriage as a mirror of change -- 4. Meaning and eating -- Part 2. The logic of practice -- 5. The practice of everyday life -- 6. The pliable emotions -- 7. Immoral politics -- Conclusion. A history of the future.

ISBN: 0520219937 (alk. paper) 9780520219939 (alk. paper) 0520219945 (alk. paper) 9780520219946 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 99031248

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Rural development--China--Shaanxi Sheng.
Social change--China--Shaanxi Sheng.
Vernieuwing.
Sociale verandering.
Agrarische maatschappij.
Etnografie.
Sociologie rurale--Chine--Shaanxi.
Développement rural--Chine--Shaanxi.
Changement social--Chine--Shaanxi.
Landwirtschaftsentwicklung.
Sozialer Wandel.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Shaanxi Sheng (China)--Rural conditions.
Shaanxi Sheng (China)--Social life and customs.
Shaanxi (Chine)--Conditions rurales.
Shaanxi (Chine)--Moeurs et coutumes.
Shaanxi.

LC Class. No.: HN740.S54 / L58 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 306/.0951/43