{"id":3739,"date":"2024-09-06T08:46:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T12:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/east-asian\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=3739"},"modified":"2024-09-10T07:55:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T11:55:10","slug":"a-world-almost-without-money-demonetization-and-everyday-life-in-collective-era-rural-china","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/east-asian\/event\/a-world-almost-without-money-demonetization-and-everyday-life-in-collective-era-rural-china\/","title":{"rendered":"A World (Almost) without Money: Demonetization and Everyday Life in Collective-Era Rural China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Jacob Eyferth<\/strong> <strong>Associate Professor<\/strong> <strong>Departments of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"tribe-events-event-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"627\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/east-asian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2024\/09\/Jacob-Eyferth-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"photos of the speaker\" srcset=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/east-asian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2024\/09\/Jacob-Eyferth-1.jpg 627w, https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/east-asian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2024\/09\/Jacob-Eyferth-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/east-asian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2024\/09\/Jacob-Eyferth-1-240x160.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/div>\n\n\n<p>During the collective era (1956\u201380), China\u2019s farmers earned an average annual cash income from collective sources of \u00a515, equivalent to US $9 in terms of purchasing power. Total income was higher, since members of collectives received much of their pay in grain, and most households had income from private sidelines. Nonetheless, rural people lived in a world with little money and few consumer goods \u2013 a world of use values rather than commodities. 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