Volume 53, Number 8 · May 11, 2006
China: The Shame of the Villages
By Jonathan Mirsky
Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China
by Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz, and Mark Selden
Yale University Press, 340 pp., $45.00
From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China
by Merle Goldman
Harvard University Press, 286 pp., $39.95
Published fifteen years ago, Chinese Village, Socialist State, as I wrote at the time, not only contained a more telling account of Chinese rural life than any other I had read; it also produced a new understanding 'of the methods by which the Chinese Communists took control of the villages and deceived the world about what was actually happening in them.'[1] Now, in Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China, the same authors continue to show how the Chinese Communist Party's rule has been a disaster for rural people.
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