TY - BOOK ID - 78343739 TI - State and peasant in contemporary China PY - 1991 SN - 052091189X 1282356089 9786612356087 0585131392 9780520911895 9780585131399 PB - Oxford University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Communes (China) KW - Peasants KW - Elite (Social sciences) KW - Local government KW - Collective farms KW - Grain trade KW - Communism KW - Produce trade KW - Peasantry KW - Agricultural laborers KW - Rural population KW - Marks (Medieval land tenure) KW - Villeinage KW - People's communes (China) KW - Ren min gong she (China) KW - Renmin gongshe (China) KW - Government policy KW - 1970s. KW - academic. KW - agriculture. KW - analysis. KW - asia. KW - asian history. KW - chinese history. KW - class structure. KW - class system. KW - collectivism. KW - culture. KW - dynasty. KW - food production. KW - harvest. KW - international history. KW - local politics. KW - maoist china. KW - maoist period. KW - peasant. KW - political. KW - politics. KW - production. KW - scholarly. KW - small town. KW - social studies. KW - village. KW - world history. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78343739 AB - This is a study of peasant-state relations and village politics as they have evolved in response to the state's attempts to control the division of the harvest and extract the state-defined surplus. To provide the reader with a clearer sense of the evolution of peasant-state relations over almost a forty-year period and to highlight the dramatic changes that have taken place since 1978,1 have divided my analysis into two parts: Chapters 2 through 7 are on Maoist China, and chapters 8 and 9 are on post-Mao China. The first part examines the state's grain policies and patterns of local politics that emerged during the highly collectivized Maoist period, when the state closed free grain markets and established the system of unified purchase and sales (tonggou tongxiao). The second part describes the new methods for the production and division of the harvest after 1978, when the government decollectivized agriculture and abolished its unified procurement program. ER -