Prosperity's predicament: Identity, reform, and resistance in rural wartime China -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: Insiders -- Chapter One: The Market Way of Life -- Chapter Two: Living Off the Land: Farm Labor -- Chapter Three: Not Far Afield: Family Survival Strategies -- Chapter Four: Lineages, Landlords, and the Local Body Politic -- Chapter Five: The Paoge and Informal Power -- II: Outsiders -- Chapter Six: Wartime Reformers -- Chapter Seven: Taking Health Care Public -- Chapter Eight: Marriage: Reformed and Unreformed -- Chapter Nine: Of Money and Men -- Chapter Ten: Trial of Strength -- Glossary -- Weights and Measures -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Authors and Contributors
This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read and debated for what it reveals about China's rural dynamics as well as the nature of state power, markets, the military, social relations, and religion. Built on extraordinarily intimate and detailed research in a Sichuan village that Isabel Crook began in 1940, the book provides an unprecedented history of Chinese rural life during the war with Japan. It is an essential resource for all scholars of contemporary China
