TY - BOOK AU - Ruf,Gregory A. TI - Cadres and kin: making a socialist village in West China, 1921-1991 SN - 0585053766 AV - HN733 .R85 1998eb U1 - 307.76/2/0951 21 PY - 1998/// CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford University Press KW - Villages KW - China KW - Case studies KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Communism KW - Socialism KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Sociology KW - Urban KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Dorpen KW - gtt KW - Politieke verandering KW - Sociaal-economische verandering KW - Sozialismus KW - gnd KW - Stadt KW - Chine KW - Cas, �Etudes de KW - ram KW - Socialisme KW - Histoire KW - 20e si�ecle KW - Communisme KW - Vie rurale KW - Sichuan KW - Administration locale KW - Sichuan (Chine) KW - Geschichte 1921-1991 KW - swd KW - Sichuan (provincie) KW - Si chuan KW - Electronic books KW - Casestudies (vorm) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index; A topography of the past: shaping a township landscape in the early twentieth century -- Alliance and antagonism: family associations in an era of insecurity -- Creating a new village order: revolutionizing identity through liberation and 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 twentieth century N2 - Building on ethnographic research in a rural village in Sichuan, China's most populous province, this book examines changing relationships between social organization, politics, and economy during the twentieth century. Offering a wealth of empirical data on township and village life during the pre-Communist 1930s and 1940s, the decades of collectivism, and the present era of post-Mao reforms, the author explores the historical development of a local state regime he characterizes as managerial corporatism UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=6671 ER -