Fanshen - A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village

Pelican Books 1972

In 1948 William Hinton spent six months in Long Bow Village to observe the effects of the Chinese Revolution on an agricultural community. Through the microcosm of the village, he attempted to reveal something of the essece of the great anti-imperialist, anti-feudal revolution which transformed China in the first half of the 20th century. In Fanshen he succeeds brilliantly, both in portraying what the revolution actually meant to individual peasants, and in analysing problems of land reform which confronted revolutionaries in later years in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Besides being absorbing reading, it is a vast and indispensable storehouse of sociological information about rural China...