Cadres and KinBuilding on ethnographic research in a rural village in Sichuan, China's most populous province, this book examines changing relationships between social organization, politics, and economy during the twentieth century. Offering a wealth of empirical data on township and village life during the pre Communist 1930s and 1940s, the decades of collectivism, and the present era of post Mao reforms, the author explores the historical development of a local