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Yale University Press Peasant Power in China The Era of Rural Reform 1979-1989 by Daniel Kelliher
From 1979-1989 rural life in China was transformed: communes were dismantled and government domination eased. From field work in Hubei and south-central China, Kelliher traces the orgins of reform in family farming, marketing and private entrepreneurship and shows how peasants instigated reform.show more