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9811987092 pdf This book aims to provide the readers a better understanding of rural China through the particular perspective of the rural underworld. It proposes new concepts to describe social changes of rural China by comparing the contemporary rural society with the acquaintance societythe classic model for depicting the traditional Chinese society. The authors down-to-earth fieldwork has revealed that, with a permeating gang influence, the society of rural China has actually changed in nature. Such change in social nature is summarized as the estrangement of acquaintances or moral ambiguity. As a result of the rural gangsters unlawful acts of lining their pockets with national resources, rural China is going through rural governance involution. In short, this book develops new models and concepts to establish a comprehensive scientific conceptual system for explaining social reality. With hard-to-come-by information and a prudent and multi-faceted analysis on a neglected topic, this book gradually reveals to the readers the true picture of rural China.