Gao village revisited : the life of rural people in contemporary China /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gao, Mobo C. F., 1952- author.
Imprint:	Hong Kong [China] : The Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2018]
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 285 pages) : illustrations, map, genelogical table
Language:	English
Subject:	Villages -- China -- Gao Village (Jiangxi Sheng) -- Case studies. Rural conditions. Social conditions. Villages. Jiangxi Sheng (China) -- Rural conditions -- Case studies. Gao Village (Jiangxi Sheng, China) -- Social conditions -- Case studies. China -- Gao Village (Jiangxi Sheng) China -- Jiangxi Sheng. Electronic books. Case studies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12871688

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ISBN:	9882377742 9789882377745 9789629965785 962996578X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-281) and index. Project MUSE; title from digital cover (viewed on December 21, 2018).
Summary:	This is a close study of Gao village twenty years after the author, an anthropologist and native of Gao village, wrote his original ethnography Gao Village. It combines ethnographic analysis, personal vignettes, and a number of fascinating stories, which presents a convincing yet complex picture of how Gao villagers interact with the outside world. 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.
Other form:	Print version: 962996578X 9789629965785

Table of Contents:

Introduction : why Gao Village?
A critical overall view of China since the late 1990s
A brief survey of Gao Village since the late 1990s
The resourcefulness and entrepreneurship of the rural Chinese
Gao Wenshu : from troublemaker to entrepreneur
Gao Changxian, Gao Mingxia, and the background of their hotel business
The Gao family clan and its hotel businesses
The poor in Gao Village : Gao Lati
The real estate boom and Gao Changqi, the entrepreneur rubbish collector
Change and continuity : conflicts of values
The reach of the state in Gao Village
The reinvention of tradition and the impact of lineage identity on local governance
The future of Gao Village and rural China.

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