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Section I. The Countryside Under Mao 1. State Power and the Villages 2. The Rural "Class" System in the Mao Era 3. The Cultural Revolution in the Villages 4. Ideology and the Rural Work Community: The Utopian Dream and Its Demise Section II. The Post-Mao Countryside 5. Disbanding Collective Agriculture 6. Leaving the Villages 7. The Emergence of Private Entrepreneurship and New Classes 8. Local Governments and Private Enterprise: A Case Study 9. Poverty in the Rural Hinterlands: The Conundrums of Underdevelopment 10. The Kaleidoscopic Politics of Rural China 11. Assesing the Post - Mao period Bibliography Index