Description: The Unknown Cultural Revolution challenges the established narrative of China's Cultural Revolution, which assumes that this period of great social upheaval led to economic disaster, the persecution of intellectuals, and senseless violence. Dongping Han offers a powerful account of the dramatic improvements in the living conditions, infrastructure, and agricultural practices of China's rural population that emerged in this period. Drawing on extensive local interviews and records in rural Jimo County, in Shandong Province, Han shows that the Cultural Revolution helped overthrow local hierarchies, establish participatory democracy and economic planning in the communes, and expand education and public services, especially for the elderly. Han lucidly illustrates how these changes fostered dramatic economic development in rural China. The Unknown Revolution documents a neglected side of China's Cultural Revolution, demonstrating the potential of mass education and empowerment for radical political and economic transformation. It is a bold and provocative work, which demands the attention not only of students of contemporary Chinese history but of all who are concerned with poverty and inequality in the world today.
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Artist: Han, Dongping
Brand: N/A
EAN: 9781583671801
ISBN: 1583671803
Release Title: The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese ...
Book Title: The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese ...
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Number of Pages: 186 Pages
Publication Name: Unknown Cultural Revolution : Life and Change in a Chinese Village
Language: English
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Subject: Rural, Educational Policy & Reform / General, Sociology / General, General, Asia / China, World / Asian, Public Policy / Regional Planning
Publication Year: 2008
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 9.6 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Dongping Han
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Education, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
