Gao Village Revisited: The Life of Rural People in Contemporary China - Hardcover

Gao, Mobo C. F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 962996578X ISBN 13: 9789629965785

Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2019

Synopsis

This is a close study of Gao village twenty years after the author, an anthropologist and native of Gao village, wrote his original ethnography Gao Village. It combines ethnographic analysis, personal vignettes, and a number of fascinating stories, which presents a convincing yet complex picture of how Gao villagers interact with the outside world. With his sympathetic and insider’s approach, the author argues that rural Chinese display great entrepreneurship and inner strength of self-improvement; they are active contributors to China’s economic boom.

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About the Author

Mobo Gao is chair of Chinese Studies at the Department of Asian Studies the University of Adelaide. His research interests include studies of rural China, contemporary Chinese politics and culture, Chinese migration to Australia, and the mass media. He has published several books, including the critically acclaimed book Gao Village: Rural Life in Modern China (2007), The Battle of China’s Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (2008), Remembering Socialist China, 1949–1976 (2015), and Constructing China: Clashing Views of the People's Republic (2018).

Edition details

• Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 962996578X
• ISBN 13: 9789629965785
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300