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Cao Jinqing was born in 1949 in Zhejiang province, Central China, and graduated as a mature student in philosophy form Fudan University, Shanghai, in 1982. He now heads the Sociology Department at East China Polytechnic University. This book is not his first publication but it is his first major work. It has been widely reviewed in China, but is little known outside China.
Nicky Harman graduated in Chinese at Leeds University in 1972. She currently teaches Chinese Translation at Imperial College London, and translated K-The Art of Love by Hong Ying (Marion Boyars, 2002).
Huang Ruhua was born in 1960 in Shanghai, Central China, and graduated in philosophy from Fudan University, Shanghai in 1982. Between 1985 and 1990, she lectured in Shanghai, and then moved to England where she is the mother of two young children and works part time.
<p><strong>'Cao Jinqing has excelled in providing and guiding a hugely important conversation which will, as a result of his book, extend far beyond the peasant houses, Party schools and government offices of rural Henan.' -</strong> <em>China Review</em></p><p><strong>'This book draws attention to the negative aspects of China's reform process and provides an interesting and vivid portrait of rural society in interior China in the 1990s'</strong> - <em>Genia Kostka, Asian Affairs, 2008</em></p>
<p><strong>'Cao Jinqing has excelled in provoking and guiding a hugely important conversation which will, as a result of his book, extend far beyond the peasant houses, Party schools and government offices of rural Henan.' -</strong> <em>China Review</em></p><p><strong>'Noteworthy for the author's astute observations and frank crituque of the bureaucratic structure of rural life... This book would be well used in graduate courses with a focus on rural China in any of the social science disciplines, or in social science methods courses preparing students to do fieldwork in the contemporary world.'</strong> - <em>China Review International</em></p><p><strong>'Harman and Huang present an engaging text, reflecting both the anecdotal style of Cao's diary and the importance of his observations...this book is an excellent companion-piece to other local studies, and reinforces research on rural poverty, corruption, conflict and a broad range of political and economic issues.'</strong><em> - The China Journal</em></p>
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Cao Jinqing was born in 1949 in Zhejiang province, Central China, and graduated as a mature student in philosophy form Fudan University, Shanghai, in 1982. He now heads the Sociology Department at East China Polytechnic University. This book is not his first publication but it is his first major work. It has been widely reviewed in China, but is little known outside China.
Nicky Harman graduated in Chinese at Leeds University in 1972. She currently teaches Chinese Translation at Imperial College London, and translated K-The Art of Love by Hong Ying (Marion Boyars, 2002).
Huang Ruhua was born in 1960 in Shanghai, Central China, and graduated in philosophy from Fudan University, Shanghai in 1982. Between 1985 and 1990, she lectured in Shanghai, and then moved to England where she is the mother of two young children and works part time.