Product Description: Through a Glass Darkly was William Hinton’s last book. It draws on a lifetime of immersion in Chinese politics and society, beginning with the seven years he spent in China, working mainly in agriculture and land reform, until 1953...read more

Product Description: This is the dramatic story of Chen Yonggui and his community, Dazhai, where he developed an agrarian collective which Mao Zedong hailed as a model for the reconstruction of all rural china. But Ninth Heaven To Ninth Hell is not just the story of an incredible success, it is also the account of a heart-rending tragedy...read more

Product Description: These moving true stories of discipline dedication self-sacrifice and self-empowerment capture the struggle of 10 African-Americans who made a name for themselves in the martial arts. During the 1950's and 1960's, martial arts practice was struggling for respectability in this country and African-Americans were struggling for equal rights under the law...read more

Product Description: The Great Reversal is the first critical study of the widely heralded reforms currently transforming China's economy. From his long experience in Chinese agriculture, Hinton first examines the course of agricultural reform over the past decade, then looks at its consequences in different areas of the countryside and considers its implications for the country as a whole...read more

Examines te consequences of land reform on the Chinese village of Long Bow and looks at the changing approaches used in Chinese agriculture

Product Description: Chinese Studies, Asian Studies, Political Studies, International Affairs

Book by Hinton, William

Analyzes the destruction of the gentry class, the redistribution of land, and the complete restructuring of economic and social institutions in a Chinese village during the 1948 Revolution. Bibliogs