On rural society and village governance in contemporary China:

"The rapid marketization of rural labor, agricultural products, and land has dramatically reshaped village life and its structures of governance. This volume, edited by Alexander F. Day, collects twelve key essays translated from Chinese on this transformation of rural society and governance ov...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden Brill [2023]
Schriftenreihe:Rethinking socialism and reform in China volume 7
Schlagworte:
Zusammenfassung:"The rapid marketization of rural labor, agricultural products, and land has dramatically reshaped village life and its structures of governance. This volume, edited by Alexander F. Day, collects twelve key essays translated from Chinese on this transformation of rural society and governance over the past 20 years. These essays, originally published in the leading Chinese-language journal Open Times, cover class differentiation, the atomization of rural society, the hollowing out of rural governance, land transfer, rural activism against marketization, lineage politics, the role of agricultural cooperatives, the transformation of small peasant farmers into wage labor, and the disintegration and expansion of peasant petitioning, all exploring the transformation in rural China during the post-socialist era"--
Beschreibung:Includes index
Beschreibung:X, 372 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:9789004680876
900468087X