Description:
This book explores rural political change in China from 1850 to 1949 to help us understand China's transformation from a weak, decaying agrarian empire to a unified, strong nation-state during this period.
Review Quotes:
'Chang Liu's excellent study of peasants and social change in the century before the end of the War of Resistance builds on intellectual foundation, but by way of a research design goes to the next stage' - The China Journal, January 2008