%A YU Heping %T Rural transformation patterns of the campaign of rural reconstruction in republican China %0 Journal Article %D 2007 %J Front. Hist. China %J Frontiers of History in China %@ 1673-3401 %R 10.1007/s11462-007-0028-2 %P 566-589 %V 2 %N 4 %U {https://journal.hep.com.cn/fhc/EN/10.1007/s11462-007-0028-2 %8 2007-12-05 %X The campaign of rural reconstruction during the republic period was a comprehensive exploration of the changes in the traditional countryside. It establishes that the transformation of the countryside is a key issue in China’s modernization and attempts to find an effective way to connect the two. In political transformation, it promoted the system of democratic autonomy; in the transformation of agricultural economy, it advocated a joint-stock system with enterprise and market features; in the transformation of farmers’ quality, it tried to equip the farmers with basic modern cultural and technological knowledge. The characters above show a pattern of relatively systematic reconstruction of the countryside with modern significances.