LEADER 04414nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910808035103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-03739-1 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674037397 035 $a(CKB)1000000000787117 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000197605 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11178804 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000197605 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10162405 035 $a(PQKB)11703255 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300257 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10314267 035 $a(OCoLC)923109342 035 $a(DE-B1597)574491 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674037397 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300257 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000787117 100 $a20080921d1980 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aMao's people $esixteen portraits of life in revolutionary China /$f[compiled by] B. Michael Frolic 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge $cHarvard University Press$d1980 215 $a1 online resource (292 pages) $cmap 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-674-54846-9 311 0 $a0-674-54845-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tAcknowledgments --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tThousand-Dollar Pig --$tA Foot of Mud and a Pile of Shit --$tChairman Mao's Letter to Li --$tOil Man --$tDown with Stinking Intellectuals --$tLittle Brother's Wedding --$tReturn to the Motherland --$tEating Pears in Fuzhou --$tFrontier Town --$tKill the Chickens To Scare the Monkeys --$tThe One Whose Girlfriend Turned Him In --$tRubber Man --$tThe One Who Loved Dog Meat --$tMy Neighborhood --$tThe Apprentice --$tFlying Kites on White Cloud Mountain --$tNotes 330 $a"How do we apply Chairman Mao's Thought to get fat pigs?" Squad Leader Ho (who knew the most about pigs) replied that, according to Chairman Mao, one must investigate the problem fully from all sides, and then integrate practice and theory. Ho concluded that the reason for our skinny pigs had to be found in one of three areas: the relationship between the pigs and their natural environment (excluding man); the relationship between the cadres and the pigs; and the relationship among the pigs themselves. And so the city slickers, sent down to the countryside for political reeducation, set out to find the Thousand-Dollar Pig, much to the bemusement of the local peasants. The sixteen stories collected in this remarkable book give firsthand accounts of daily life in contemporary China. From 250 interviews conducted in Hong Kong between 1972 and 1976, Mr. Frolic has created charming vignettes that show how individuals from all parts of China led their lives in the midst of rapid social change and political unrest. We hear about oil prospectors, rubber growers, and factory workers, Widow Wang and her sit-in to get a larger apartment, the thoroughly corrupt Man Who Loved Dog Meat, the young people who flew kites to protest antidemocratic tendencies. As fresh and original as the individual accounts are, common and timeless themes emerge: the sluggishness of an agrarian society in responding to modernization; the painful lack of resources in a poor and gigantic country; the constraints imposed on common people by the bureaucracy; the way in which individuals outwardly support the system and inwardly resist it; the limitations of heavy and conflicting doses of ideology in motivating individuals. But there are also recurrent motifs of economic and social progress: production rises, illiteracy declines, and socialist values have impact. A new China has emerged, though change is occurring far more slowly than its leaders had intended. Mao's People contains much new information on China both for the general reader and for specialists in the field. Above all, it is a completely engrossing and vivid glimpse into the ways of a nation we are only beginning to discover. 606 $aChinese$zChina$zHong Kong$vInterviews 607 $aChina$xSocial conditions$y1949-1976$vCase studies 615 0$aChinese 676 $a309.1/51/05 701 $aFrolic$b B. Michael$f1937-$0127857 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808035103321 996 $aMao's people$94008850 997 $aUNINA