Zhijia Shen: 1 book
Rural China on the Eve of Revolution
Sichuan Fieldnotes, 1949-1950
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure. He settled near the market town of Gaodianzi, Sichuan, and lived there for two and a half months, until the newly arrived Communists asked him to leave....
