The author is a cultural anthropologist and Sinologist. During late 1979 and early 1980, he enjoyed the unprecedented opportunity of living and stydying in a village in Guang=Dong Province in the southeastern People's Republic of China. His subsequent revelations about the country's troubled rural conditions, however, earned him the condemnation of the Beijing government which denounced him as a foreign spy. This book is from the estate of Twin Cities collector, Grace Reiter; it is unmarked except for her signature and embossed nsame.

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Title

Broken Earth: The Rural Chinese

Publisher

Free Press, New Jersey

Publication Date

1983

Language

English

ISBN 10

0029217008

ISBN 13

9780029217009

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition, First Printing

Condition

Near Fine

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Near Fine

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Having lived for two years among Chinese villagers, an anthropologist illuminates the patterns and details of their lives and analyzes the effects of political corruption, a black market economy, and a campaign of coerced birth control

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