The End of the Peasantry (Translation Series of Sociological Theories)

Author: H. Méndras / Li Peilin
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: 2 billion farmers stand at the threshold of industrial civilization, which is the main issue the contemporary world poses to social sciences in the second half of the 20th century. Now, on the administrative map of China, nearly 70 villages disappear almost every day, and tens of thousands of villages vanish from China's administrative map each year. After the disintegration of these millennia-old villages, how do farmers integrate into completely different cities, which is an urgent issue to be addressed.