The gap between those living in the city and those in the countryside remains one of China's most intractable problems. As this powerful work of grassroots history argues, the origins of China's rural ...

Many of these people would have lived not in the city but in the surrounding countryside, and only about 35,000 men would have been full citizens. In comparison, other important cities ...

Martin Chillcott, who set up the Protect Rural Peterborough campaign group in 2016 to save open countryside from overdevelopment, has urged the city council to reconsider its Local Plan.