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Fanshen Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village
Hinton, William Publisher: Monthly Review Press, USA Year Published: 1966 Pages: 672 pp ISBN: 978-1-58367-175-7 Resource Type: Book
William Hinton's work is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complementary and caustic relationship since the Chinese Communist Party first came to power.
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Table of Contents
Preface Prologue
Part I: Sowing the Wind 1. Long Bow Village 2. Can the Sun Rise in the West 3. Eating Bitterness 4. Three Pillars of Heaven 5. The Teaching of the Lord of Heaven 6. Invasion 7. Collaborators 8. Seeds of Change 9. The Whirlwind
Part II: Sunrise in the West: The Year of Expropriation 10. Which Road? 11. Beat the Dog's Leg 12. Find the Leaders 13. Dig Out the Rotten Root of Feudalism 14. Wang Lai-Hsun is Next 15. The Fruits of Struggle 16. Half of China 17. Counter Measures 18. Founding the Village Communist Party Branch 19. Peasants or Workers? 20. Contradictions, Internal and External 21. All Out War - Retreat 22. Organizing Production 23. Abuses of Power 24. The Blackmail of Wang Yu-lai
Part III: The Search for the Poor and Hired 25. Cosmic Wei Ch'I 26. To the Village 27. The Work Team 28. Those with Merit will get Some, Those without Merit will get Some 29. Self Report, Public Appraisal 30. Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggarman, Thief 31. The Revolutionary Heat 32. Brothers 33. A Curved Road 34. Drama in the Fields
Part IV: Who Will Educate the Educators? 35. Confrontation at the Gate 36. The Village Leader Bows his Head 37. 'I Dare not say I have Finished' 38. Days and Nights 39. A Summing Up 40. The Lucheng Road 41. In the Dragon Hall 42. When Poverty Outranked Heaven 43. Unity Through Struggle 44. When I get my Share 45. Unite Real Friends, Attack Real Enemies
Part V: Recapitulation 46. The Native's Return 47. Both Ends Sun Unseen 48. Class Differentiation Repeated 49. It is too Slow! 50. Who Dares Man the Second Gate? 51. A Young Bride Leads the Way 52. The Gate in the Church 53. Upgrading
Part VI: Drastic Reappraisal 54. On the Eve of Victory 55. We Tried to be God! 56. Who is to Blame?
Part VII: Untying the Knot 57. Disaster 58. Revolutionary Steeling 59. Mutual Aid 60. The Village People's Congress 61. A Final Determination 62. The Midnight Raid 63. Hsueh-chen Dissents 64. 'Illegal Fruits' Returned 65. Arrests and Restitutions 66. 'Self Report, Public Appraisal' Solves the Tax Question 67. Long Bow to Tsai Chien
Appendices Maps and Tables
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