Author: Ruf, Gregory A.
Title: Cadres and Kin: Making a Socialist Village in West China, 1921-1991
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1998). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xx,249,(8) pp.. 8pp photoplates. Minor rubbing. VG. In a torn dustwrapper. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: A Topography of the Past: Shaping a Township Landscape in the Early 20th Century; Alliance & Antagonism: Family Associations in an Era of Insecurity; Creating a New Village Order: Revolutionizing Identity through Liberation & Land Reform; Getting Organized: Struggling with Collectivism; Village as Enterprise: Corporate Community Management in the Deng Era; A Topography of the Present: Shaping a Village Landscape in the Late 20th Century; Appendix: Qiaolou Village Compact.

Keywords: Historical Sociology, Communist China, Ethnography, Social Anthropology, Ethnology, Rural Village, Sichuan, East Asia, Political History