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Yu Zhang, "Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915–1965" (U Michigan Press, 2020)

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Project Origins, Rural Concepts, and Book Structure

Yu Zhang outlines her interdisciplinary training, reframes the rural as underdevelopment, and explains the book's six-chapter framework and early themes of homecoming, social surveys, and the rural vernacular.

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