ABSTRACT
A comprehensive analysts 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. Key topics covered include: 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. The introduction skillfully integrates the themes that run throughout this work and the concluding chapter focuses on current and future problems in rural China.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|67 pages
Restructuring Property Rights and Decollectivization
chapter 2|26 pages
Decollectivization in China, 1977–1983
chapter 3|22 pages
Explaining Diversity in Rural China
part II|74 pages
Conflicts, Norms, and the Search for New Institutions
chapter 5|21 pages
Struggling over Land in China
chapter 6|32 pages
Law, Contracts, and Economic Modernization
part III|68 pages
Markets, Hierarchy, and the Restructuring of Urban-Rural Relations
chapter 8|18 pages
Dilemmas of Partial Reform
part IV|76 pages
Industrialization and Internationalization: Rural China Turns Outward
chapter 11|26 pages
Internationalizing China's Countryside
chapter 12|27 pages
“Developmental Communities” on China's Coast
part V|30 pages
Reviewing the Record