| Description |
xvii, 365 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Socialism and social movements |
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Socialism and social movements.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Scholarly Debates and Rural Development as the Countryside Moves into the Twenty-First Century -- 1. Opposition to Change in Rural China -- 2. Decollectivization in China, 1977-1983: Dynamics Between Context and Content in Policy Implementation -- 3. Explaining Diversity in Rural China: Embedded Interests and Decollectivization in Jiangsu Province, 1978-1983 -- 4. Prosperity and Conflict in Post-Mao Rural China -- 5. Struggling over Land in China: Statist Hegemonies and Villager Resistance, 1966-1986 -- 6. Law, Contracts, and Economic Modernization: New Institutions for Conflict Resolution under the Rural Reforms -- 7. From Village to City: Reforming Urban-Rural Relations -- 8. Dilemmas of Partial Reform: State and Collective Firms versus the Rural Private Sector -- 9. Urbanizing Rural China: Bureaucratic Authority and Local Autonomy -- 10. Rural Industry: Weathering the Storms of Central State Policy -- 11. Internationalizing China's Countryside: The Political Economy of Exports from Rural Industry -- 12. "Developmental Communities" on China's Coast: The Impact of Trade, Investment, and Transnational Alliances -- 13. Development, Freedom and the Future of Rural China |
| Summary |
A comprehensive analysis of China's rural reforms, this book links local experiences to national policy, showing the dynamic tension in the reform process among state policy, local cadre power and self-interest, and the peasants' search for economic growth. Twelve articles, ranging from personal on-site observations of early resistance to reform by suburban cadres and peasants in Nanjing to field research in export-oriented communities on the Yangzi River in 1991-92, cover key topics: the responsibility system, privatization and changing property rights, industrialization, social conflict, cadre corruption, urban-rural relations, conflict over land, rural urbanization, and the impact of globalization |
| Notes |
"An East gate book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Rural development -- China.
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Land reform -- China.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Rural conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100798
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China. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091151
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| LC no. |
97016303 |
| ISBN |
1563248379 cloth alkaline paper |
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1563248387 paper alkaline paper |
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