City Versus Countryside in Mao's China: Negotiating the Divide

by Jeremy Brown

Book Overview

The gap between those living in the city and those in the countryside remains one of China's most intractable problems. As this powerful work of grassroots history argues, the origins of China's rural-urban divide can be traced back to the Mao Zedong era. While Mao pledged to remove the gap between the city worker and the peasant, his revolutionary policies misfired and ended up provoking still greater discrepancies between town and country, usually...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107424542
• ISBN13: 9781107424548
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"