Chen Village: Revolution to Globalization

Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. Chen Village and Its Leaders
	The Village Setting
	Tales of the Chen Lineage
	The 1950s in Chen Village
	Collectivization
	The Great Leap Forward
	Chen Village Production Brigade and Its New Leaders
	Ghen Qingfa
	Playing Politics with Teams
	Chen Longyong
	The Small Four Cleanups
2. The Big Four Cleanups
	The Workteam
	Sinking Roots
	Linking Up
	Lighting the Fire
	Expose and Denounce
	Getting Qingfa
	Putting Policy on a Solid Footing
	Elections
	Directing the Spearhead Downward
3. Studying Chairman Mao
	Introducing the Mao Cult
	The Mao Thought Training Sessions
	Mao’s Preachers
	Broadcasting the New Order
	The Antisuperstition Drive
	Learn From Dazhai
	The Production Drive
	The Second Fall of Qingfa
4. The Cultural Revolution
	Hopes and Frustrations Among the Sent-Down Youth
	The Rebel Red Guards
	The Good-Class Red Guards
	Boiling A Riceless Porridge
	The Collapse of Brigade Leadership
	The Cultural Revolution Leadership Small
	Group
	Reemergence of Old Rivalries
	Qingfa’s Mischief
	The Persecution of Shorty
5. The Cleansing of the Class Ranks
	A New Village Government
	Bolting the Latch
	The Ordeal of the Four-Bad Types
	Punishing the Rebel Youth Leaders
	In the Cowshed
	Attacking Qingfa
	Persecuting the Unpopular
	Narrowing the Circle
6. A Lefiward Lurch and a Solid Footing
	Celebrating the Three Loyalties
	Sentencing the Prisoners
	Putting Policy on a Solid Footing
	Release and Repentance
	Qingfa’s Return
7. The Great Betrothal Dispute
	The Marriage Revolution
	Romance versus Pragmatism
	Setting the Stage: Amalgamating Production
	Teams
	A Tale of Two Team Heads
	New Team Four and Lilou’s Schemes
	Longyong Intervenes
	The Storm Subsides
8. Plunging into a New Decade
	The New Economie Era
	The Enterprise Team and the Consolidation of Brigade Power
	Challengers to Longyong
	Ao’s Political Disaffection
	Lin Biao’s Death
	Involuntary Volunteers
9. The Troubled Seventies
	Undoing the Green Revolution
	Party Commandism
	Grain Exactions and a Political Mini-Crisis
	The Cadres’ Worries
	Longyong’s “Follies”
	Labor Troubles
	Nuisance Campaigns
	The New Generation
	Special Privileges
	Longyong’s Maneuvers
	After Mao
	A Sour Inheritance
10. The New Era
	The Exodus
	Qingfa Triumphant
	Decollectivization
	The Four Cleanups Nullified
	Heaven’s Revenge
	A “Revolutionary Successor”
11. The Midas Touch
	The Lost Generation
	Industrious Daughters
	Symbols of Prestige
	Two Nations
12. Entrepreneurs and Gamblers
	Local Successes
	The New Face of Village Government
	Loyalty Networks: Production Teams and Lineages
	A Religious Gamble
	Dilemmas at the Turn of the Nineties
13. Globalization and Transformation
	The Industrialization of Chen Village
	An Exclusive Welfare State
	Governing Chen Village
	Village Identity
	Public Entrepreneurship
14. Lifestyles of a Middle- Class Community
	Becoming Rich
	The Leisured Middle Class
	Insiders and Outsiders
	Realigning Identities
	The Influence of Hong Kong
	Bringing Up the New Generation
15. Outsiders
	Business Immigrants
	Factory Workers
	Past, Present, and Future
Epilogue: An Unbroken Thread
	Other Writings on Chen Village
	Index