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Author : George William Skinner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:1050156146
Author : George William Skinner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:29905412
Author : George William Skinner
Publisher : Assn for Asian Studies Incorporated
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0924304421
This three-part study, originally published in consecutive issues of the Journal of Asian Studies, has become a classic in the field of Asian studies and has been used in classrooms for over 50 years.
Author : Jie Fan,Thomas Heberer,Wolfgang Taubmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317460640
This book reports the findings of two field studies conducted between 1993 and 2001 in seven townships and six provinces in China. The authors describe the process of rural urbanization and its related economic, social, and political changes by focusing mainly on the zhen (town), in addition to administrative offices and companies involved in the local economy, and village committees. The authors show that the social changes resulting from China's economic reforms are occurring mainly from below, and that this process is also resulting in a weakening of the economic and political dominance of the central government. Other changes discussed in this study include the development of new ownership structures and the increasing dominance of the private sector; a shift in the functions of administrative offices as the bureaucracy becomes increasingly business oriented; the rise of a new local elite; a rebirth of traditional social structures (clans, local associations); and the emergence of new interest groups and institutions to represent their needs.
Author : T. Saich,B. Hu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137035158
The story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation, this book shows how outcomes are shaped by a number of factors such as path dependence, social structures, economic resources and local entrepreneurship.
Author : G. William Skinner
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295999432
In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure. He settled near the market town of Gaodianzi, Sichuan, and lived there for two and a half months, until the newly arrived Communists asked him to leave. During his time in Sichuan, Skinner kept detailed field notes and took scores of photos of rural life and unfolding events. Skinner went on to become a giant in his field�his obituary in American Anthropologist called him �the world�s most influential anthropologist of China.� A key portion of his legacy arose from his Sichuan fieldwork, contained in his classic monograph Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China. Although the People�s Liberation Army confiscated Skinner�s research materials, some had been sent out in advance and were discovered among the files donated to the University of Washington Libraries after his death. Skinner�s notes and photos bring to life this rare glimpse of rural China on the brink of momentous change.
Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0231511876
Exotic Commodities is the first book to chart the consumption and spread of foreign goods in China from the mid-nineteenth century to the advent of communism in 1949. Richly illustrated and revealing, this volume recounts how exotic commodities were acquired and adapted in a country commonly believed to have remained "hostile toward alien things" during the industrial era. China was not immune to global trends that prized the modern goods of "civilized" nations. Foreign imports were enthusiastically embraced by both the upper and lower classes and rapidly woven into the fabric of everyday life, often in inventive ways. Scarves, skirts, blouses, and corsets were combined with traditional garments to create strikingly original fashions. Industrially produced rice, sugar, wheat, and canned food revolutionized local cuisine, and mass produced mirrors were hung on doorframes to ward off malignant spirits. Frank Dikötter argues that ordinary people were the least inhibited in acquiring these products and therefore the most instrumental in changing the material culture of China. Landscape paintings, door leaves, and calligraphy scrolls were happily mixed with kitschy oil paintings and modern advertisements. Old and new interacted in ways that might have seemed incongruous to outsiders but were perfectly harmonious to local people. This pragmatic attitude would eventually lead to China's own mass production and export of cheap, modern goods, which today can be found all over the world. The nature of this history raises the question, which Dikötter pursues in his conclusion: If the key to surviving in a fast-changing world is the ability to innovate, could China be more in tune with modernity than Europe?
Author : Him Chung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351161749
The rural market in China is not only the venue where 60 per cent of the country's 1.3 billion inhabitants buy their daily necessities and sell agricultural products, but also a key area of conflict between government control and liberalization policies. Previous research on the topic has adopted a purely economic perspective, focusing on macro issues such as price control and grain procurement. This book focuses instead on peasants - the major participants in rural marketing activities. Illustrated by two comparative case studies with a diverse level of development from the Pearl River Delta - one of the most prosperous regions in coastal China - this book investigates the market hierarchy, its change of functions and the interactions between peasants and market outlets. In doing so, it shows how China's rural market district has changed since the Reform, and how these changes affect the marketing activities of peasants.
Author : Ane Bislev,Stig Thøgersen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739170090
During the early 1980s China embarked on what can be seen as one of the world's largest social experiments ever. Decollectivization meant much more than the reorganization of agricultural production into family based farming. It signaled significant changes to rural social relations, when privatization, marketization and increased geographical mobility started tearing apart the economic and social institutions that had structured collective village life under Mao. The focus of this book is on how rural society has been reorganized in the 21st century. The first chapters outline the basic organizational structure of rural China and can be used as an introduction to the topic in a classroom setting. They show how the state and its social scientists draw up plans to overcome the perceived lack of rural social organization, and discuss the often problem-ridden implementation of their ideas. The second section presents case studies of institutions that organize key aspects of rural life: Boarding schools where rural children learn to accept organizational hierarchies; lineage organizations carving out new roles for themselves; "dragonhead enterprises" expected to organize agricultural production and support rural development, and several others. The book is of theoretical interest because of its focus on the re-embedding, or reintegration, of individuals into new types of collectivities, which are less predetermined by tradition and habit and more a matter of, at least perceived, individual choice. Most chapters are based on extensive fieldwork and contain vivid examples from daily life, which will make the book attractive to anyone who wants to understand how Chinese villagers experience the extraordinary social changes they are going through.
Author : Flemming Christiansen,Junzuo Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023470557
This volume investigates the forces and processes in Chinese rural society, exploring the local levels of government in rural areas (villages, townships and towns) as important managers of people and resources, and as deeply involved in business and enterprise. Whether they are 'Village Inc.' or not, the financial management, the ownership of the means of production, the structure of the rural enterprises, the farming structures, and the social networks all indicate that local government in rural China has corporatist traits, or can be conceived of as a hybrid of market forces and collective management. Most importantly, the role of the central state vis-a -vis rural economy forces a convergence of political and economic management in rural areas, which is exacerbated by terms of ownership, that some interpret as unclear or even 'murky.'
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004680883
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 (开放时代), 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.
Author : Wang Xianming
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000226904
Highlighting the interwoven relationship between Chinese rural society and larger historical forces, this book charts the evolution of China’s rural society from 1901 to 1949, concentrating on the major changes of this period and the scenarios developed to modernize rural society during the half century leading up to the Revolution. The modern history of rural China is one of sweeping institutional and structural transformation across many dimensions. As the first half of the twentieth century unfolded, against a backdrop of turbulent changes across a country that underwent industrialization, urbanization and modernization, China’s agriculture, rural population and rural communities encountered many crises, but also showed remarkable resilience and capacity for adaptation and reform. In each of the six chapters, the author delves into one aspect or examines one period of this massive transformation, and identifies the social, economic, political and cultural signifi cance of these tumultuous processes at work. The book will appeal to both scholars and general readers interested in modern Chinese history and the transformation of rural China.
Author : Marsh Marshall
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1985-12-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSC:32106005592479
Economic analysis of the relations between organization behaviour of communes and economic growth in rural area China - reviews land reform, early rural cooperatives, and transition to the rural commune, analysing its structure and function; includes two case studies of agricultural development and rural industry growth rate and income; looks at the private sector, notably household income level; discusses collective income distribution at brigade level, impact of recent economic reforms, etc. Bibliography, graphs, references, statistical tables.
Author : Jiquan Xiang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811208782
Rural community construction is an important topic of study in China. This book examines the development of various construction models, the reasons behind their emergence, and provides analyses based on their characteristics, problems, and trends.It offers insights from a historical perspective, through the study of organizational bases, structural functions, behavioral patterns and their roles in national governance, as well as social systems of rural communities in different periods.This book is also integrated with comparative analyses on urban and rural communities, and comprises of examples from China and other countries, including United States, Japan, South Korea, and more.
Author : E. Tsang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137297440
Based on interviews with entrepreneurs, professionals and regional party cadres' from a range of age groups, this book argues that Western class categories do not directly apply to China and that the Chinese new middle class is distinguished more by socio-cultural than by economic factors.
