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China’s rural life and landscapes under changing industry
Barbara W. Tuchman paints rural China as a land of bent laborers under straw hats, rice and wheat cycles, and enduring plows. She contrasts ancient farming scenes with modern power lines, smokestacks, and factory outlines seen from the train between the Yellow River and the Yangtze, as industrial dispersal intrudes on countryside beauty.
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