Research Catalog

Title

From heaven to earth : images and experiences of development in China / Elisabeth Croll.

Author

Croll, Elisabeth, 1944-2007.

Publication

London : New York : Routledge, 1994.

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Details

Description

xviii, 317 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Rural development > China > Sociological aspects
• Agriculture and state > China
• 83.46 development economics
• Rural development > Sociological aspects
• Agriculture and state
• Rural conditions
• Entwicklung
• Ländliche Entwicklung
• Wirtschaftsreform
• Plattelandsontwikkeling
• Boeren
• Agrarisch beleid
• Household production > China
• Rural conditions > China
• Agricultural development > China
• Rural development > China
• Rural development > Sociological aspects > China
• Peasants > China
• Réforme agraire > Aspect social > Chine
• Politique agricole > Chine
• Développement rural > Chine
• China > Rural conditions
• China
• Chine > Conditions rurales

Note

• Author was born and educated in New Zealand.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-310) and index.

Contents

1. Imaging heaven: collective dreams -- pt. I. Reform: household and village. 2. State policies: revolution, responsibility and reform. 3. Peasant experiences: household and village development -- pt. II. Readjustment: the village. 4. Resource management: land, service and enterprise. 5. Information networked: cadre, knowledge and agency. 6. Income generation: riches, poverty and projects -- pt. III. Readjustment: the household. 7. Aggregation: labour, family and kin. 8. Continuity: sons, successors and the single child. 9. Discontinuity: daughters, discrimination and denial -- 10. Living the earth: family aspirations.

ISBN

• 0415097460
• 9780415097468
• 0415101875
• 9780415101875
• 0203040384 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

93012543

OCLC

• ocm27726172
• 27726172
• SCSB-8979822

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library