Will the Boat Sink the Water
Book by Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Will the Boat Sink the Water? The Life of China's Peasants is a 2006 non-fiction book authored by husband and wife team Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao. It is the English translation of Zhongguo Nongmin Diaocha (中国农民调查, "An Investigation of Chinese Peasants"), published in Chinese in 2004.[1]
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Author | Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao |
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Translator | Zhu Hong |
Language | Chinese |
Publisher | (Eng. trans.) PublicAffairs |
Publication date | January 2004 |
Publication place | China |
Published in English | June 2006 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 256 pp (Eng. trans. edition) |
ISBN | 978-1586483586 |
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The book features four cases of villages where there was excessive extraction of taxes and the like by local CCP cadres and peasant protest in response to this, in the poorer parts of predominantly rural Anhui province. It then provides a more analytical discussion of the historical background and the institutional sources of the conflicts between the local CCP leadership and the peasantry.[1][2][3]