"A distinctive and important contribution."—Thomas P. Bernstein, author of Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages

A study of how China’s changing economy may leave its rural communities in the dust and launch a political and economic disaster. As the glittering skyline in

In the tradition of In Patagonia and Great Plains, Michael Meyer's In Manchuria is a scintillating combination of memoir, contemporary reporting, and historical

This collection of papers presented at an international conference in 1987 provides a comprehensive analysis of China's booming rural non-state industrial secto

Everyday life in contemporary rural China is characterized by an increased sense of moral challenge and uncertainty. Ordinary people often find themselves caugh