Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The pre-communist village. The village of Nanching
  • Population composition
  • The land and its exploitation
  • Land ownership and tenancy
  • Production, consumption, and supplementary income
  • Kinship system
  • A decentralized power structure
  • Class stability and mobility
  • pt. 2. Early impact of the Communist Revolution. Class struggle as the first step of land reform
  • Confiscation and redistribution of land
  • Post-land reform village economy
  • Establishing the new power structure
  • Alterations in the kinship system
  • Other social institutions and their initial change
  • pt. 3. National changes in the village community under collectivization. From mutual-aid teams to full collectivization
  • Economic problems of the agricultural producers' co-operatives
  • Organizational problems of the agricultural producers' co-operative
  • Changing structure of the village community