This portrait of social change in the North China plain depicts how the world of the Chinese peasant evolved during an era of war and how it in turn shaped the

Drawing on more than a quarter century of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the contested relationship between village and

For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist t

This is a detailed portrait of social change in the North China plain, depicting how the world of the Chinese peasants evolved during an era of war and revoluti

This volume includes 14 articles translated from the leading academic history journal in China, Historical Studies of Contemporary China (Dangdai Zhongguo shi y