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Peasant life in ChinaBook 1946 • Fei, Hsiao-tung
Han Chinese • Asia > East Asia
This is a study of the factors behind economic and social change in a small agrarian village, where a decline in the demand for silk resulted in poverty and misery. With silk no longer the principal source of cash income, peasants were forced to borr...