From Heaven to Earth: Images and Experiences of Development in China

by Elisabeth Croll

Book Overview

Much has been written of China's peasant revolution, less has been written on the peasant experience of reform. In From Heaven to Earth Elisabeth Croll examines the images, policies and experiences of development and links the peasants' experience of revolution and reform with their conceptualisations of time and change and examines the new and recent desires which motivate peasant households in China; the new and strenuous demands which are generated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415101875
• ISBN13: 9780415101875
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary