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.

"This book should be read by everybody interested in or working on or in China." The China Journal

• AcknowledgmentsPrologue1. Chen VIllage and Its Leaders2. The Big Four Cleanups3. Studying Chairman Mao4. The Cultural Revolution5. The Cleansing of the Class Ranks6. A Leftward Lurch and a Solid Footing7. The Great Betrothal Dispute8. Plunging into a New Decade9. The Troubled Seventies10. The New Era11. The Midas Touch12. Entrepreneurs and Gamblers13. Globalization and Transformation14. Lifestyles of a Middle-Class Community15. OutsidersEpilogue : An Unbroken Thread:The Sent-Down Youths and Chen VIllageOther Writings on Chen VillageIndex

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.

"This book should be read by everybody interested in or working on or in China." The China Journal

• AcknowledgmentsPrologue1. Chen VIllage and Its Leaders2. The Big Four Cleanups3. Studying Chairman Mao4. The Cultural Revolution5. The Cleansing of the Class Ranks6. A Leftward Lurch and a Solid Footing7. The Great Betrothal Dispute8. Plunging into a New Decade9. The Troubled Seventies10. The New Era11. The Midas Touch12. Entrepreneurs and Gamblers13. Globalization and Transformation14. Lifestyles of a Middle-Class Community15. OutsidersEpilogue : An Unbroken Thread:The Sent-Down Youths and Chen VIllageOther Writings on Chen VillageIndex

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.

"This book should be read by everybody interested in or working on or in China." The China Journal

• AcknowledgmentsPrologue1. Chen VIllage and Its Leaders2. The Big Four Cleanups3. Studying Chairman Mao4. The Cultural Revolution5. The Cleansing of the Class Ranks6. A Leftward Lurch and a Solid Footing7. The Great Betrothal Dispute8. Plunging into a New Decade9. The Troubled Seventies10. The New Era11. The Midas Touch12. Entrepreneurs and Gamblers13. Globalization and Transformation14. Lifestyles of a Middle-Class Community15. OutsidersEpilogue : An Unbroken Thread:The Sent-Down Youths and Chen VIllageOther Writings on Chen VillageIndex