From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society by Fei Xiaotong

Throughout time China and its society has changed drastically. Rural society occupies about half of china today, roughly around 60 percent. They have very different ideas of living and life patterns. Some are beginning to become more modern, as some try there hardest to stay the same. People who live in these societies like how primitive and low the standards of living area, while some want change. Fei Xiaotong shows this throughout his book in detail. From the 1950s and on, China's revolutionary government had made great efforts to put the state and its ideology into contact with different villages and to push aside the intermediaries and or brokers who had traditionally thought central policies and national customs for those who lived in the village. The state and the people were pretty successful, establishing respected degrees of political and ideological integration of villages into the civilizations and the awareness of political ideas and goals within the states different policies. The direct direction of labor on collective fields made the usual practices of diffusing labor between villages nearly impossible. Registration and productive rationing systems trapped villagers to their homes and made it almost impossible for them to find their fortune anywhere else. Cooperation with different villagers and satisfying relationships with different village leaders became super important, more than they had already been in the past. The decrease of specific rural exchange, which attended the motivation for self-sufficiency in different grain production and other economic movements. This had harsh social as well as economic ramification.

China received not only its role but also its direct power in the rural economy in the early ...

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...ted success of rural exchange, industry and to domestic economic behavior and standardization.

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