A comprehensive analysis 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.
- ISBN10 0585032602
- ISBN13 9780585032603
- Publish Date 14 May 2014
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint M.E. Sharpe
- Format eBook
- Pages 374
- Language English