China's urban villagers : changing life in a Beijing suburb / Norman A. Chance. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

BECOMING AN ADULT -- Relations between sexes -- Selecting a mate -- Being engaged -- The marriage day

A DECADE OF CHANGE -- Economic reform -- Rising discontent -- Protest as Tiananmen Square -- Village response -- Buteaucracy, privatization, and democracy.

BECOMING RICH IS FINE -- The turning point -- Agricultural modernization -- The individual, the collective, and the state

FAMILY RELATIONS -- Kin ties -- The changing status of women -- Family planning -- The later years --

GROWING UP -- Birth -- Infancy

HALF MOON VILLAGE -- The setting -- Local history -- Relations with the commune -- The party and the people -- The problem of bureaucracy

INTRODUCTION -- The rise of revolution -- The nature of Chinese socialism --

PART ONE: COLLECTIVE LIFE

PART TWO: CHANGING POLITICAL ECONOMY

SCHOOLING -- A visit from the teacher -- Primary education -- Middle school -- Portrait of an educated youth

THE MEETING -- A brief discussion -- The new brigade leader -- A criticism offered

WORKING -- Household economy -- Collective enterprise -- From field to factory -- Differences between villages -- Resolving conflicts

This book describes life in a small village on the outskirts of Beijing. It covers socialization and education, the impact of mechanization amd industrialization, efforts at modernization, and the response of the villagers to political realities in a socialist state. This edition incorporates the recent uprising in China and the tragic events at Tiananmen Square. It describes the outrage expressed by Chinese workers at the rampant inflation and political corruption threatening their livelihood and challenging their sense of social justice, and illustrates how economic and political events of recent years lead to the pro-democratic and anti-corruption protests of 1989. AMAZON

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APA - CHECK FORMATING BEFORE USE Chance, N. A. (2002). China’s Urban Villagers: Changing Life in a Beijing Suburb (2nd ed.). Wadsworth.

MLA - CHECK FORMATING BEFORE USE Chance, Norman A. China’s Urban Villagers: Changing Life in a Beijing Suburb. 2nd ed., Wadsworth, 2002.

Chicago/Turabian - CHECK FORMATTING BEFORE USE Chance, Norman A. China’s Urban Villagers: Changing Life in a Beijing Suburb. 2nd ed. Wadsworth, 2002.

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Initially, I was encouraged to write creatively by Ernestine Robinson, a wonderful high school English teacher who assured me that poor 'speling,' poor 'grammer,' and a highly experimental approach to writing would not necessarily limit my literary future. She then introduced me to the work of James Joyce.