Over time, China and its society have changed radically. Rural society today occupies about half of China, or about 60 percent. They have very different ideas about life and lifestyles. Some are starting to become more modern, while others strive to stay the same. People who live in these societies enjoy the primitive and low standard of living, while some desire change. Fei Xiaotong shows this in detail throughout his book. Beginning in the 1950s, China's revolutionary government made great efforts to bring the state and its ideology into contact with different villages and to weed out middlemen and/or brokers who had traditionally thought of central policies and national customs for those who lived in the village. . The state and the people have succeeded in establishing respected degrees of political and ideological integration of villages into civilizations and in becoming aware of political ideas and objectives within the various state policies. The direct management of work on collective fields made the usual practices of distributing labor between villages almost impossible. Productive registration and rationing systems trapped villagers in their homes and made it almost impossible for them to find their fortunes elsewhere. Cooperation with different villagers and good relationships with different village leaders have become extremely important, more than in the past. The decrease in specific rural exchanges, which accompanied the motivation for self-sufficiency in different cereal productions and other economic movements. This had harsh social and economic ramifications. China received not only its role but also its direct power in the rural economy at the beginning...... middle of the article...... the success of rural exchange and industry and behavior national economy and standardization. Works Cited Fei, Xiaotong. From the ground: the foundations of Chinese society. Berkeley: University. of California, 1992. Print. Schoppa, R. Keith. The revolution and its past: identities and change in modern Chinese history. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002. Print. Kishlansky, Mark A. “Early Modern China: Shortcuts, Myths, and Realities.” China at the beginning of the modern world: shortcuts, myths and realities. Societies and cultures in world history, September 4, 1995. Web. February 18, 2014. Buckely, Patricia L. “Introduction to Modern Chinese History.” Introduction to the modern history of China. Chinese Civilization and Society, October 5, 1990. Web. February 16. 2014. .