Pi

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   historiqueA county of Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

   Pi County has brought democracy into full play. The peasants there are electing production team leaders and other production team cadres by secret ballot.

   [...]water carriers, the sedanchair carriers, the pawn brokers, and even the manure collectors in a market town in Pi county, Szechwan in the late Ch'ing period.

   In addition to my own residential complex, I also engaged in ethnographic observation and conducted interviews with Party cadres and local residents in four similar apartment complexes in Dujiangyan and two in neighboring Pi County.