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Guest Editor's Introduction

In the past two decades, China has been transformed from a poor, xenophobic, totalitarian society with no social mobility to one that is relatively free with reduced poverty, a market-oriented economy, and millions of people on the move to seek greater wealth and prosperity. This breathtaking and somewhat mystifying change was, in fact, initiated in 1978 in a bleak and dreary village in Anhui Province by some twenty peasants silently revolting against the stifling collective production and ownership system. Without this unprecedented reform in the countryside, other fundamental changes in the Chinese society, economy, and government would have seemed totally impossible.