Research Catalog

Title

Grassroots political reform in contemporary China / edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and Merle Goldman.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Perry, Elizabeth J.
• Goldman, Merle.

Description

vi, 402 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Harvard contemporary China series ; 14

Subjects

• Protest movements > China
• Contestation > Chine
• Chine > Politique et gouvernement > 1949-
• Political participation > China
• Participation politique > Chine
• Administration locale > Chine
• Local government > China
• China > Politics and government > 1949-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-397).

Contents

Introduction: Historical reflections on grassroots political reform in China / Elizabeth J. Perry and Merle Goldman -- Village elections, transparency, and anticorruption : Henan and Guangdong provinces / Richard Levy -- The implementation of village elections and tax-for-fee reform in rural northwest China / John James Kennedy -- Fiscal crisis in China's townships : causes and consequences / Jean C. Oi and Zhao Shukai -- Direct township elections / Lianjiang Li -- The struggle for village public goods provision : informal institutions of accountability in rural China / Lily L. Tsai -- Inadvertent political reform via private associations : assessing homeowners' groups in new neighborhoods / Benjamin L. Read -- Civil resistance and rule of law in China : the defense of homeowners' rights / Yongshun Cai -- "Hope for protection and hopeless choices" : labor legal aid in the PRC / Mary E. Gallagher -- Is labor a political force in China? / Ching Kwan Lee -- Between defiance and obedience : protest opportunism in China / Xi Chen -- In search of the grassroots : hydroelectric politics in northwest Yunnan / Ralph Litzinger -- Public opinion supervision : possibilities and limits of the media in constraining local officials / Yuezhi Zhao and Sun Wusan.

Call Number

JFE 07-3624

ISBN

• 9780674024854 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0674024850 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780674024861 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0674024869 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007002992

OCLC

80360244

Title

Grassroots political reform in contemporary China / edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and Merle Goldman.

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Series

Harvard contemporary China series ; 14

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-397).

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Table of contents only

Added Author

Perry, Elizabeth J.

Goldman, Merle.

Research Call Number

JFE 07-3624