Böcker i China Understandings Today-serien

Following the end of World War II in 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spent three decades carrying out agrarian reform among nearly one third of the world's rural population. This book presents a new perspective on the first step of this reform, when the CCP helped redistribute over 40 million hectares of land to over 300 million peasants.

Tthe act of "going to the countryside" was a distinctively modern experience and a continuous practice in China. Going to the Countryside deals with the cultural representations and practices of this practice between 1915 and 1965, focusing on individual homecoming, rural reconstruction, and revolutionary journeys.

Offers a reconsideration of the significance and periodization of literary production in the high socialist era, roughly 1953 through 1966, specifically focused on Mao-era culture workers' experiments with ghosts and ghost plays.