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Rural Medical Care Delivery: The Experiment and Follow-Up in Ding County

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Abstract

The 1920s and 1930s witnessed an upsurge in the Rural Construction Movement in China. According to statistics, the academic organizations and educational agencies that were involved in the movement amounted to 600 and as many as over 1,000 experimental zones were built (Yan Yangchu 1992).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The analysis within the class framework had been criticized by Liu Wanghua’s (2008).

  2. 2.

    Cited in Zheng Dahua (2000, 74–75).

  3. 3.

    See Liu Ruiheng’s preface to Li Ting’an’s book (1935).

  4. 4.

    Relevant information of the North China Plain could refer to Philip C. Huang’s Small Peasant Economy and Social Transition of North China, Prasenjit Duara’s Culture, Power and the State, Ma Ruomeng’s Economy of China’s Peasants.

  5. 5.

    As a US Christian Political Scientist had said, we should sharpen our vigilance against any large-scale enthusiasm of the mass.

  6. 6.

    Cited in Zheng Dahua’s (2000, 110).

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Hu, Y. (2013). Rural Medical Care Delivery: The Experiment and Follow-Up in Ding County. In: Rural Health Care Delivery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39982-4_7

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