Chapter One Engendering Rural Development and Environmental ChangesRural Modernization, Ecological Legacy and GenderContested Terrain: Gender, Natural Resources Management and InstitutionalMatrixesMain StructureChapter Two The Politics of FieldworkSite SelectionThe Initial VisitsAn Ethnographic Gaze: Power in Operation, Power in TransitionChapter Three The Setting: Land and Its PeopleA Peasant Community in Northeastern ChinaA Village in Flux: The Intersection of Class, Gender and EthnicityLandscape Dynamics and Environmental ChallengesChapter Four Agrarian Changes and the Crusade against Local EnvironmentAgricultural Collectivization and Its Environmental ImpactsPlunging Into Smallholder Patterns: Agricultural Intensification,Technological Changes and the Gendered Labor RegimesThe Livestock Economy in an Ecological ContextChapter Five Voices from the Grassroots: Gender,Bureaucratic State Power and the Mass Mobilization Conservation CampaignEnvironmental Action as a Mass Mobilization ConservationCampaign: a Local TaleThe History of Mass Conservation Practices in a Peasant VillageFrom Success to Tragedy: The Legacy of a Party SecretaryIn the Shadow of a New Round of��Development�� Chapter Six The State, Community-based Natural Resource Management and Resistance PoliticsThe State at the Grassroots LevelCommunity-based Natural Resource Management and Its DilemmasThe Powerless Fight Back: Resistance Politics in the VillageEveryday Forms of ResistanceChapter Seven Intra-household Dynamics and Inter-household InteractionsA Shift of Gender and Power in Intra-household DynamicsInter-household Relationships in PracticeChapter Eight Market, Off-farm Work and Socioeconomic Differentiation: Money Changes EverythingThe Evolution of the Market as an Institutional Mechanism:The Rush to Off- farm PursuitsEmerging Wealth and Poverty through Villagers' EyesChapter Nine Gender, Conservation and Development:Sustainability DilemmasLiterature CitedAppendix