Full Citation: Whyte, M. K., “Introduction: Rural Economic Reforms and Chinese Family Patterns,” 130 THE CHINA QUARTERLY 317 (1992).
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Introduction: Rural Economic Reforms and Chinese Family Patterns
The rural economic reforms introduced into China after 1978 have wreaked havoc on the accumulated scholarship of China specialists in the west. Dozens of books and articles that had revealed the inner workings of people’s communes and the merits and faults of competing work point systems were reduced to historical curiosities by the decollectivization drive
Language: English
Year: 1992