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Model rebels : the rise and fall of China's richest village / Bruce Gilley.

By: Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.Description: xvi, 219 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0520225325 (alk. paper)
  • 9780520225329 (alk. paper)
  • 0520225333 (pbk.: alk. paper)
  • 9780520225336 (pbk.: alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.951/154 21
LOC classification:
  • HC428.T23 G54 2001
Contents:
Yanzhao Elegy -- Four Hens and a Slogan -- Long Live Understanding! -- Outlaws of the Marsh.
Review: "A tale of rural rebellion unfolds in Bruce Gilley's moving chronicle of a village on the northern China plains during the post-1978 economic reform era. Gilley examines how Daqiu Village, led by Yu Zuomin, a charismatic Communist Party secretary and president of the local industrial conglomerate, became the richest village in China and a model for the rural reforms of the 1980s and early 1990s.Summary: A growing campaign of political resistance led to increasing tensions between the villagers and the Chinese state, and eventually, in an event that made headlines around the world, an armed confrontation between the village and higher authorities backed by paramilitary police brought Yu Zuomin and his village crashing down."--Jacket.
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Books Books The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks HC428.T23 G54 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available TBC00012120
Books Books The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks HC428.T23 G54 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.2 Available TBC00014327

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-210) and index.

"A tale of rural rebellion unfolds in Bruce Gilley's moving chronicle of a village on the northern China plains during the post-1978 economic reform era. Gilley examines how Daqiu Village, led by Yu Zuomin, a charismatic Communist Party secretary and president of the local industrial conglomerate, became the richest village in China and a model for the rural reforms of the 1980s and early 1990s.

A growing campaign of political resistance led to increasing tensions between the villagers and the Chinese state, and eventually, in an event that made headlines around the world, an armed confrontation between the village and higher authorities backed by paramilitary police brought Yu Zuomin and his village crashing down."--Jacket.

Yanzhao Elegy -- Four Hens and a Slogan -- Long Live Understanding! -- Outlaws of the Marsh.

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