Gao Village: A Portrait of Rural Life in Modern China - Softcover

Mobo Gao

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1850654271 ISBN 13: 9781850654278

Publisher: C. Hurst & Co (Publishers) Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

This book is about Gao Village, in Jiangxi province, where the author was born and brought up, leaving when he was twenty-one to study English at Xiamen University. Since emigrating to Australia in 1990, he has returned every year to Gao Village, where his brother still lives. Several accounts of village life in China have been published, but all have been by Western or urban Chinese scholars. Mobo Gao's account is in every sense one from the inside. Though written as an academic work, it does not eschew personal stories and experiences relevant to the themes addressed. These cover a forty-year period and fall into four distinct themes; the village before and after land reform; the commune system; the dismantling of the communes; and the unfolding impact of the market economy, including increased migration to urban areas, from the late 1980s onwards.

About this title

About the Author

Mobo C. F. Gao is senior lecturer in Modern Chinese Studies at the Department of Asian Languages and Studies, University of Tasmania.

Edition details

• Publisher: C. Hurst & Co (Publishers) Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1850654271
• ISBN 13: 9781850654278
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288