Chen Village

The first two editions of Chen Village presented an enthralling account of a Chinese village in the throes of Maoist revolution followed by dramatic changes in village life and local politics during the Deng Xiaoping period. Now, more than a decade and a half later, the authors have returned to Chen Village, and in three new chapters they explore astonishing developments. The once-backwater village is today a center of China's export industry, where more than 50,000 workers labor in modern factories, ruled by the village government. This new edition of Chen Village illuminates, in microcosm, the recent history of rural China up to the present time.

Anita Chan is a sociologist at the Australian National University. Richard Madsen is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. Jonathan Unger is head of the Contemporary China Centre at the Australian National University.

Acknowledgments
Prologue

1. Chen VIllage and Its Leaders
2. The Big Four Cleanups
3. Studying Chairman Mao
4. The Cultural Revolution
5. The Cleansing of the Class Ranks
6. A Leftward Lurch and a Solid Footing
7. The Great Betrothal Dispute
8. Plunging into a New Decade
9. The Troubled Seventies
10. The New Era
11. The Midas Touch
12. Entrepreneurs and Gamblers
13. Globalization and Transformation
14. Lifestyles of a Middle-Class Community
15. Outsiders

Epilogue : An Unbroken Thread:
The Sent-Down Youths and Chen VIllage
Other Writings on Chen Village
Index