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Fanshen; a documentary of revolution in a Chinese village

William Hinton

What happened inside one Chinese village when land reform and revolution reached it?

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Author
William Hinton

Why read it

  • You will see revolution through the eyes of one village, from its traditional society to the actions of a land reform work team
  • You will understand why the author holds that the revolution cannot be grasped without the old society that brought it on
  • You will learn what fanshen, the revolution's word for turning over, meant to the poor and hired peasants of one village

Who it is for

  • Reader of modern Chinese history who wants a village view
  • Student of revolutions, land reform and rural poverty
  • Organizer studying how movements change communities

Contents

  1. Fanshen after Forty Years
  2. Dedicaton
  3. Fanshen
  4. Preface
  5. Prologue
  6. PART I Sowing the Wind
  7. PART II Sunrise in the West The Year of Expropriation
  8. PART III The Search for the Poor and Hired
  9. PART IV Who Will Educate the Educators?
  10. PART V Recapitulation
  11. PART VI Drastic Reappraisal
  12. PART VII Untying the Knot
  13. Appendix A
  14. Appendix B
  15. Appendix C

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