Raoyang

To reduce contemporary reliance on politicized memories of the old days and to provide a benchmark for gauging change, we sought a North China plain area that social scientists had studied before 1949. The Chinese authorities suggested Raoyang county, which had been the southeastern tip of Dingxian prefecture in central Hebei province.

1991, Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz, Mark Selden, Kay Ann Johnson, “Introduction”, in Chinese Village, Socialist State, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, Political Science/Asian Studies, page xiii