..., my own. Unless otherwise indicated, all translations are my own. The End of the Peasant? New Rural Reconstruction in China Alexander Day “The peasants’ lot is really bitter, the countryside is really poor...

...Yunxiang Yan This article reveals that in response to the dramatic social changes since the 1949 revolution, Chinese rural families have undergone a process of profound transformation, which I refer to as the “individualization of the family.” This transformation took place at two interlocking yet...

...Wang Hui; Lennet Daigle The focus of rural education work should shift from upgrading infrastructure to improving the quality of education, especially in weak rural schools. This proposal contains four primary suggestions: accessible preschool education, improved on-the-job professional development...

... (due to class but also urban-rural and regional inequalities, among others) have assumed even greater sharpness. Despite important advances, in other words, serious problems remain—especially given continued claims to socialism. Uncertainty about the future remains as development has added new problems...

...Christopher Connery As a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Wang Hui’s proposals give indications of the practical, policy-oriented side of this important contemporary intellectual. One proposal addresses deficiencies in rural education, a major obstacle to social...

... and equality at the expense of efficiency. Under the planned (moral) economy, communes (she) and brigades (dui ) in rural areas and units (danwei ) in cities were not only economic . Liang Shuming, Zhongguo wenhua yao yi [The key principles of Chinese culture] (Shanghai...

...—the refusal of any attempt at living, not to mention an act of resistance. We are not yet sure if the rural migrant workers have had a chance to go through reincar- nation or remain as ren (human beings The political ideology of neolib- eralism currently prevalent in China has given a death sentence...

... of the rural poor—that would go beyond literacy and numeracy and find a home in an expanded definition of a ‘‘Humanities to come llll Education in the Humanities attempts to be an uncoercive rearrange- ment of desires.12 If you are not persuaded by this simple description, noth- ing I say...

... reverses its predecessor’s policy in prioritiz- Shaobo Xie and Fengzhen Wang / Chinese Education  109 ing the city over the country in designing and implementing its economic reform, largely leaving the rural population to survive or perish on its own. Consequently there occurs...

... infrastructure, a population of about 1000 million (more than four-fifths of whom live in rural areas), and a low per capita income. In spite of these difficulties China has man- aged to establish a three-level network that is a realistic and practi- cal example of the primary health...

... in the Department of History at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He received a PhD in the history of modern East Asia with a research focus on modern China from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2007. His dissertation examines contemporary debates on China’s emerging rural crisis...

... and mediates, Mao reintegrates documentary cinema in rural life through an exhibition practice that repositions the technical medium of cinema in relation to the shamanistic sphere of influence. This ecology of the medium articulates a public sphere of exchange and transformation that enacts a new documentary...

... and local voices, undeveloped characters, urban or rural hinterlands, drifting visual modes, narrative digressions, low-tech inscriptions of minor and mar- ginal communities, and a more fully dialectal warping of voice and angle of vision. Hence these films would be less available to global...

... of the Revolution (2009), and The Politics of Imagining Asia (2011). Wen Tiejun is dean of the School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, and executive dean of the Institute of Advanced Studies for Sustainability, Renmin University of China, Beijing. He is deputy secretary-general of China...

... of its social life at all levels, for example, demands an understanding of the internal mechanisms that have pro- duced, nurtured, and sustained it. Widening and deepening chasms in Chi- nese society, such as inequalities between urban and rural communities1 1. During the period of reform...

... still overwhelmingly rural, artisanal, and preindustrial. For many, a direct link can be traced between this retarded industrial and technological development and the supposed conservatism of Cleary / Materialist History of Twentieth-Century Irish Literature 217 Irish cultural...

.... The assault on these rights in capitalist colonialism con- verted property, land, and nature in the communal setting into exclusive property rights and abolished the inherited rights of individual producers.17 The capitalist market also converted a rural producer’s labor power into a “free-­floating...

... Joseph . 2012 . “ Bo Xilai and Reform: What Will Be the Impact of His Removal .” China Leadership Monitor , no. 38 ( Summer ). Accessed September 1, 2015 . http://www.hoover.org/publications/china-leadership-monitor . Gao Yuan . 2011 . “ Rural Development in Chongqing: The ‘Every...

... economy and see only personhood, contorting these big objects so that they yield nothing but subject. One of the oldest distinctions in poetic form—and it’s helpful as far as it goes—is between the georgic and the pastoral, where the first emphasizes rural work, a poetry of hoeing and weeding...

...) and the World Forum for Alternatives (WFA). Wang Hui: Professor of the Faculty of Humanities, and director of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing. Wen Tiejun: Dean of the School of Agricultural Economics and Rural boundary 2 39: 1 (2012)”DOI...