Fanshen by William Hinton has a lot of first-hand accounts of 30s and 40s rural China. Terrible conditions, and highlights how Chinese "landlords" of the time were far closer to feudal lords than some guy renting out his parents' old house in Milwaukee.
yeah. your shitty yuppie landlord will evict you to settle a debt.
your chinese "landlord" will sell your children to settle a debt. the two are not the same.
the basis of CCP power was not inveighing against the urban bourgeoisie, of which the majority of chinese had no idea even existed let alone felt oppressed by. it was actually mao that suggested allying with the patriotic, national bourgeois and small producers against the compradors and the landlords.
Fanshen by William Hinton has a lot of first-hand accounts of 30s and 40s rural China. Terrible conditions, and highlights how Chinese "landlords" of the time were far closer to feudal lords than some guy renting out his parents' old house in Milwaukee.
yeah. your shitty yuppie landlord will evict you to settle a debt.
your chinese "landlord" will sell your children to settle a debt. the two are not the same.
the basis of CCP power was not inveighing against the urban bourgeoisie, of which the majority of chinese had no idea even existed let alone felt oppressed by. it was actually mao that suggested allying with the patriotic, national bourgeois and small producers against the compradors and the landlords.