Lin Juren is professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Shandong University. Xie Yuxi is lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Shandong University. Linda Grove is professor emerita at Sophia University in Tokyo, where she was vice president for research and international exchange.

• List of MeasuresList of Figures and TablesChronologyPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Lengshuigou in Time and SpaceChapter 2 Changes in Village Politics and Village ElitesChapter 3 Lineage and Family RelationshipsChapter 4 Social Structure and Social LifeChapter 5 Cultural Tradition and Folk CustomsChapter 6 Social Relationships and Network StructuresChapter 7 Economic Structure and DevelopmentChapter 8 Transformation and Future of the VillageEpilogueReferencesIndexAbout the Editor

A century of change in a Chinese village: The crisis of the countryside, authored by Lin Juren and Xie Yuxi, and translated by Linda Grove, provides a comprehensive and nuanced account of the systematic social, cultural, economic and political changes in a Northern Chinese village called Lengshuigou, located on the fringe of Jinan city, the provincial capital of Shandong. It provides a rich and valuable source of empirical materials and grounded knowledge for scholars interrogating rural China from the disciplinary angles of sociology, anthropology, political science, human geography, regional studies, planning, etc.