Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village

William Hinton

Aakar Books 2015

Language: English

672 Pages

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Price INR 595.0 USD 29.75

About the Book

More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton’s Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China’s revolutionary process of rural reform and social change. A pioneering work, Fanshen is a marvelous and revealing look into life ini the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complimentary and caustic relationship in the years since the Chinese Communist Party first came to power. It is a rare, concrete record of social struggle and transformation, as witnessed by a participant. Fanshen, continues to offer profound insight into the lives of peasants and China’s complex social processes. Rediscover this classic volume, which includes a new prefaceby Fred Magdoff.

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