本书立足于当代中国农村实际，运用话语分析和国家与农民关系分析框架，对反映70多年来中国农村变化的40余个“关键词”进行探讨，力图在重现中国农村历史性变迀和跳跃性变化的同时，使我们能够更好地理解和研究当代中国农村发展的演变规律。

Through the discussion of "policy discourse", we can grasp how the country uses policy tools to transform and build rural areas, and how grass-roots cadres and farmers understand and transform national policies. Through the research on and change in "key words", we can grasp the rural changes under the interaction of state power and rural society, and analyze the process, laws and characteristics of contemporary rural changes in China from the perspective of "big history" .