
Caste Aside: The Future for China's Peasants
The Little Red Podcast
How Did Peasants Come to Be So Demonized?
In the mou era, peasants were held up as one ofe the great stars of the revolution. How did this discourse about them come to change so rapidly? I see it as this kind of discourse developing and amplifying after there starts to be development focus in urban areas. And where the peasants then become seen as drag because this labor force is so necessary for the kind of economic growth that was happening on the coast, in the cities.
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