1. Historical and Theoretical Aspects of Sociological Research 2. Making Arrangements 3. Three Misfortunes Facing the Peasants 4. Promotion Prospects 5. A Visit to a 'Model of Prosperity' Village 6. The Election of the 'Top Ten Officials' 7. Two Wedding Customs: 'Pressing the Bed' and 'Bean Stuffing' 8. A Woman Who Had Escaped the Confines of Traditional Village Life 9. A Visit to the Kaifeng County Party Secretary, 'Yang the Just' 10. The Apple Orchard Owner 11. More on Village Party Secretaries and Corruption 12. The Eye Goddess Temple 13. Abortion Targets - Bureaucracy Gone Mad 14. Imperious Officials in China's Interior 15. An Economically Important Xiang - Chenliu 16. Joint Enterprise and Family-Run Businesses in Zhuqingzhai Village 17. Local Government in a Predicament Over the 'Veto' 18. The Carve-Up of Power at Xiang or Town Level 19. A Visit to Chenliu's Head of Finance 20. Liudian Xiang - Land Reclaimed From the Yellow River 21. Liudian's Drainage Project 22. Village Cadres Who Kept the Flood Drainage Work Going 23. Five Good Things about Being Village Party Secretary 24. Trip to Southern Henan 25. Dual Fields System 26. A Reflection on the Xinyang Affair 27. Some Issues of Mutual Concern 28. A Visit to the Xinyang Region 29. Tensions Between Party and People 30. Tobacco and Cotton - Crops Doomed to Fail 31. One Person Can Make or Break a Kingdom 32. 'Can't Find a Law That Fits' 33. The County Head Talks about Controlling the Officials 34. Visiting the Old Lady at Dongjia Huts Purchasing Favour or Reciprocating Hospitality? 35. Borrowing Money to Make Tax Payments 36. An Episode at Zhengzhou Station 37. The Final Stage of My Trip - the Luo River 38. How the Hill Folk Lived 39. The Bullying Brothers 40. Fighting For 'Poor County' Status 41. 'Cadre Visits are a Waste of Petrol' 42. Back From the Northern Chinese Plains
Cao Jinqing was born in 1949 in Zhejiang
province, Central China, and graduated as a mature student in
philosophy form Fudan University, Shanghai, in 1982. He now heads
the Sociology Department at East China Polytechnic University. This
book is not his first publication but it is his first major work.
It has been widely reviewed in China, but is little known outside
China.
Nicky Harman graduated in Chinese at Leeds
University in 1972. She currently teaches Chinese Translation at
Imperial College London, and translated K-The Art of Love by Hong
Ying (Marion Boyars, 2002).
Huang Ruhua was born in 1960 in Shanghai, Central
China, and graduated in philosophy from Fudan University, Shanghai
in 1982. Between 1985 and 1990, she lectured in Shanghai, and then
moved to England where she is the mother of two young children and
works part time.
'Cao Jinqing has excelled in providing and guiding a hugely
important conversation which will, as a result of his book, extend
far beyond the peasant houses, Party schools and government offices
of rural Henan.' - China Review'This book draws attention to the
negative aspects of China's reform process and provides an
interesting and vivid portrait of rural society in interior China
in the 1990s' - Genia Kostka, Asian Affairs, 2008
'Cao Jinqing has excelled in provoking and guiding a hugely
important conversation which will, as a result of his book, extend
far beyond the peasant houses, Party schools and government offices
of rural Henan.' - China Review'Noteworthy for the author's astute
observations and frank crituque of the bureaucratic structure of
rural life... This book would be well used in graduate courses with
a focus on rural China in any of the social science disciplines, or
in social science methods courses preparing students to do
fieldwork in the contemporary world.' - China Review
International'Harman and Huang present an engaging text, reflecting
both the anecdotal style of Cao's diary and the importance of his
observations...this book is an excellent companion-piece to other
local studies, and reinforces research on rural poverty,
corruption, conflict and a broad range of political and economic
issues.' - The China Journal
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