Cowboys and Cultivators

Preface -- Introduction -- Economy, Labor, and Family in Inner Mongolia -- Cultivators: The Chinese Way -- Chinese Farmers: Tranquillity and Middle Villages -- Chinese Farmers: Economy and Society -- People of Tranquillity -- More Farm Households: Weak Labor -- Pastoralists: Another Kind of Society -- Chinese Herders: Sandhill and Great Pasture -- Chinese Herders: Economy and Society -- Pastoral Families: The Haves -- Families at the Turing Point -- Pastoral Families: The Have Nots -- Conclusions: Ecology and Society on the Inner Mongolian Frontier