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The book received the 2012 Barrington Moore Book Award by the American Sociological Association. [4] Frank Dikotter called the book "a truly terrific book" and "long overdue too", and that Su "has written a model of rigorous scholarship that squarely places the Cultural Revolution where it should have been all along, in the area of genocide studies on a par with Rwanda, as villagers turned ...
To Live (simplified Chinese: 活着; traditional Chinese: 活著; pinyin: Huózhe) is a novel written by Chinese novelist Yu Hua in 1993. It describes the struggles endured by Fugui, the son of a wealthy land-owner, while historical events caused and extended by the Chinese Revolution are fundamentally altering the nature of Chinese society.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Rural society in China" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of ...
Rural society in the People's Republic of China encompasses less than half of China's population (roughly 45%) and has a varied range of standard of living and means of living. Life in rural China differs from that of urban China. In southern and coastal China, rural areas are developing and, in some cases, statistically approaching urban ...
In total, approximately 17 million youth were sent to rural areas as a result of the movement. [1] Usually only the oldest child had to go, but younger siblings could volunteer to go instead. Chairman Mao's policy differed from Chinese President Liu Shaoqi 's early 1960s sending-down policy in its political context.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... free of Party interference. [7]: ... 9 Public healthcare was highly effective in curbing infectious diseases in rural China.
The name "Three Rural Issues" were highlighted by CCP general secretary Hu Jintao and Chinese premier Wen Jiabao as areas of rural development in China that need work. At the 2006 National People's Congress , the Three Rural Issues were especially emphasized throughout Wen Jiabao's speech on the workings of the government in 2005 and the ...
The literary critic and sinologist Andrew H. Plaks writes that the term "classic novels" in reference to these six titles is a "neologism of twentieth-century scholarship" that seems to have come into common use under the influence of C. T. Hsia's The Classic Chinese Novel (1968).