Understanding peasant China: case studies in the philosophy of social sciences. By Daniel Little, pp. xi, 322, 6 figs., 6 maps. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1989. US $36.00, £25.00.

Abstract

examining their narrative accounts of historical events, rational choice explanations of large-scale political phenomena, causal explanations of social phenomena based on material factors and explanations of large- scale historical patterns based on general equilibrium models, the China such social