Description: Jing Zhai is a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas in Austin. She specializes in the history of modern China. Zhai describes the everyday life of rural communes in China from 1956-1983, highlighting the jobs that people had, as well as the educational and daycare systems that existed in these communities. She also discusses the role that collectivization played in structuring people's lives in these communities.
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