The transformation of rural China

I. The countryside under Mao.

State power and the villages

The rural "class" system in the Mao era

The cultural revolution in the villages

Ideology and the rural work community: the utopian dream and its demise.

II. The post-Mao countryside.

Disbanding collective agriculture

Leaving the villages

The emergence of private entrepreneurship and new classes

Local government and private enterprise: a case study

Poverty in the rural hinterlands: the conundrums of underdevelopment

The kaleidoscopic politics of rural China

Assessing the post-Mao period.