Shows how Chinese intellectuals with varying politics envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century.

The career of communist revolutionary Wei Baqun, one of China’s “three great peasant leaders” and man of the southern frontier. Robin Hood–style revolut

This book offers historical and comparative analyses of changes in agrarian society forced by the globalization of capitalism, and the implications of these cha

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 hist