Village and Family in Contemporary China

by Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish

Book Overview

After 1949 the Chinese Communists carried out land reform, the collectivization of agriculture, and the formation of people's communes. The new economic and political organizations that emerged have made peasant life more comfortable and secure, but many economic and status differentials and traditional customs remain resistant to change. Focusing on rural Kwangtung province, William L. Parish and Martin King Whyte examine the rural work-incentive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226645908
• ISBN13: 9780226645902
• Release Date: December 1978
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 419 Pages