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...

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Superior document:Rethinking Socialism and Reform in China Series ; v.7
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.
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Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Rethinking Socialism and Reform in China Series
Physical Description:1 online resource (383 pages)
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Summary:"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"--
ISBN:9004680888
Hierarchical level:Monograph