Gao Village Revisited: The Life of Rural People in Contemporary China - Softcover

Mobo C.F. Gao (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9882371094 ISBN 13: 9789882371095

Publisher: The Chinese University Press, 2018

Synopsis

As an anthropologist and native of Gao Village, the author combines ethnographic analysis, personal vignettes, and a number of fascinating stories to present a convincing yet complex picture of how Gao villagers interact with the outside world twenty years after the publication of his original ethnography of Gao Village. With his sympathetic and insider’s approach, the author argues that rural Chinese display great entrepreneurship and inner strength of self-improvement; they are active contributors to China’s economic boom.

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About the Author

Mobo C. F. Gao is professor of Asian Studies at The University of Adelaide. His research interest includes studies of rural China, contemporary Chinese politics & culture, Chinese migration to Australia, and the mass media. He has published several books, including the critically acclaimed Gao Village: Rural Life in Modern China (2007), The Battle of China’s Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (2008), Remembering Socialist China, 1949–1976 (2015), and Constructing China: Clashing Views of the People’s Republic (2018).

Edition details

• Publisher: The Chinese University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9882371094
• ISBN 13: 9789882371095
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300