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Like many peasants in China, I have tried to imagine the life of peasants in the United States. During my investigations in the countryside, when I struck up a conversation with peasants, they often asked about “peasants in America.”
This article was originally published in Zhongguo fazhan guancha (China Development Observation), 2005 (8).
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Zhao, S. (2017). Sharply Different Villages. In: The Politics of Peasants. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4341-3_24
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