City versus Countryside in Mao's China: Negotiating the Divide

Abstract

Introduction 1. The city leads the village: governing Tianjin in the early 1950s 2. Eating, moving, and working 3. Tianjin's great leap: urban survival, rural starvation 4. The great downsizing of 1961-3 5. The four cleanups and urban youth in Tianjin's hinterland 6. Purifying the city: the deportation of political outcasts during the Cultural Revolution 7. Neither urban nor rural: in-between spaces in the 1960s and 1970s 8. Staging Xiaojinzhuang: the urban occupation of a model village, 1974-8 Epilogue.