Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village - Hardcover

Hinton, William; Magdoff, Fred

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1583679979 ISBN 13: 9781583679975

Publisher: Monthly Review Press, 2008

Synopsis

More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China's revolutionary process of rural reform and social change. A pioneering work, Fanshan is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complimentary and caustic relationship in the years since the Chinese Communist Party first came to power. It is a rare, concrete record of social struggle and transformation, as witnessed by a participant. Fanshen continues to offer profound insight into the lives of peasants and China's complex social processes. Rediscover this classic volume, which includes a new preface by Fred Magdoff.

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About the Authors

William Hinton (1919-2004) was a farmer in Vermont and a legendary figure in the U.S. left. He wrote many books on post-revolutionary China, including Through a Glass Darkly, Iron Oxen, The Great Reversal, Hundred Day War, Shenfan, and Turning Point in China.

Fred Magdoff taught at the University of Vermont in Burlington, is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation, and has written on political economy for many years. He is most recently the author (with John Bellamy Foster) of The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences (Monthly Review Press).

Edition details

• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1583679979
• ISBN 13: 9781583679975
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 672