Research Catalog

Title

The transformation of governance in rural China : market, finance and political authority / An Chen, National University of Singapore.

Author

Chen, An, 1955-

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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Description

xvi, 391 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This book started twelve years ago as a much smaller project which was intended to explore China's peasant burdens and grievances. At that time, I saw no clear signs suggesting that the Chinese countryside was on the eve of a great political and economic transformation. I did not anticipate that this project would take so many years to complete and eventually expand to such a scope. The two major rural reforms in the first decade of the twenty-first century, namely the tax-for-fee reform in 2002-2004 and the abolition of agricultural taxes in 2005-2006, whose effects were reinforced by the ongoing marketization of the rural economy and the rapid deterioration of rural finances, have changed China's rural politics almost beyond recognition. In terms of its economic, political, and social magnitude, this transformation by no means pales in comparison with agricultural decollectivization around the turn of the 1970s"--

Subject

• Rural development > Government policy > China
• Villages > China
• Local government > China
• China > Rural conditions
• China > Politics and government > 1976-2002
• China > Politics and government > 2002-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-373) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. The changing foundations of Communist rule in China's rural society -- 3. The 1994 tax reform and rural fiscal crises -- 4. The township in the era of reform -- 5. The mechanisms of political power in villages -- 6. Village finance: its deterioration and consequences -- 7. The abolition of agricultural taxes and village governance -- 8. Transformed peasant society and re-alignment in rural politics -- 9. Entrepreneur cadres as new rural ruling elites -- 10. Prospects for China's rural governance -- Appendices.

Call Number

JFE 16-8106

ISBN

• 9781107081758
• 1107081750

LCCN

2014034062

OCLC

885226087

Author

Chen, An, 1955-

Title

The transformation of governance in rural China : market, finance and political authority / An Chen, National University of Singapore.

Publisher

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-373) and index.

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Research Call Number

JFE 16-8106