State And Peasant In Contemporary China

Author : Jean C. Oi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1991-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520076372

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State and Peasant in Contemporary China by Jean C. Oi Pdf

This is a study of peasant-state relations and village politics as they have evolved in response to the state's attempts to control the division of the harvest and extract the state-defined surplus. To provide the reader with a clearer sense of the evolution of peasant-state relations over almost a forty-year period and to highlight the dramatic changes that have taken place since 1978,1 have divided my analysis into two parts: Chapters 2 through 7 are on Maoist China, and chapters 8 and 9 are on post-Mao China. The first part examines the state's grain policies and patterns of local politics that emerged during the highly collectivized Maoist period, when the state closed free grain markets and established the system of unified purchase and sales (tonggou tongxiao). The second part describes the new methods for the production and division of the harvest after 1978, when the government decollectivized agriculture and abolished its unified procurement program.

Author : Jean Chun Oi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0520061055

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State and Peasant in Contemporary China by Jean Chun Oi Pdf

Author : Vivienne Shue
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804766654

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The Reach of the State by Vivienne Shue Pdf

These four conceptual and critical essays on state and society in contemporary China argue vigorously against the grain of prevailing scholarly interpretation. In substantive content, they explore two major themes from different historical and theoretical points of departure. First, the author argues that the party/state under Mao fell far short of the full control over China's peasant society that outside observers often assumed it had achieved. She shows, instead, how the Maoist state frequently pursued policies that in fact had the ironic effect of strengthening the resistance of rural communities against the central political apparatus. Second, she contends that once the true limitations on the Maoist state's power in rural areas are rightly understood, it becomes clear that one effect of the post-Mao economic and political reforms may be to enhance rather than to diminish the state's authority in the countryside — despite all the reformists' rhetoric to the contrary. These essays on "how to think about the Chinese state" are designed to stimulate debate about assumptions and methods in the field of Chinese political analysis. The controversies they raise, however, make them highly relevant to scholars outside Chinese studies who are interested in theories of the state, in the interrelations of state and society, and in the fate of the peasantry under socialism.

Author : Wei Shan,Lijun Yang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814618571

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Changing State-Society Relations in Contemporary China by Wei Shan,Lijun Yang Pdf

This book attempts to provide an overview of social and political changes in Chinese society since the global financial crisis. Rapid economic development has restructured the setup of society and empowered or weakened certain social players. The chapters in this book provide an updated account of a wide range of social changes, including the rise of the middle class and private entrepreneurs, the declining social status of the working class, as well as the resurgence of non-governmental organisations and the growing political mobilisation on the internet. The authors also examine the implications of those changes for state-society relations, governance, democratic prospects, and potentially for the stability of the current political regime.

Author : Daniel Roy Kelliher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025213989

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Peasant Power in China by Daniel Roy Kelliher Pdf

From 1979-1989 rural life in China was transformed: communes were dismantled and government domination eased. From field work in Hubei and south-central China, Kelliher traces the orgins of reform in family farming, marketing and private entrepreneurship and shows how peasants instigated reform.

Author : Victor Nee,David P. Mozingo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:233679493

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State and Society in Contemporary China by Victor Nee,David P. Mozingo Pdf

Author : Helen F. Siu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804718385

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Furrows by Helen F. Siu Pdf

A Stanford University Press classic.

Author : Qin Pang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811083129

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State-Society Relations and Confucian Revivalism in Contemporary China by Qin Pang Pdf

This book is a study of the causes of the Confucian revival and the party-state’s response in China today. It concentrates on the interactions between state and society, and the implications for the Chinese state’s control over society, or in other words, its survival over a rapidly modernizing society. The book explores the answers to questions such as: Why has Confucianism suddenly gathered great momentum in contemporary Chinese society? What is the role of the Chinese state in its rise? Is the state really the orchestrator of the Confucian revival as has been widely assumed? This book will be of interest to think-tank and policy researchers, sinologists, and those with an interest in Chinese society.

Author : Jean C. Oi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520217270

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Rural China Takes Off by Jean C. Oi Pdf

"A distinctive and important contribution."—Thomas P. Bernstein, author of Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages

Author : David S. G. Goodman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745687308

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Class in Contemporary China by David S. G. Goodman Pdf

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 More than three decades of economic growth have led to significant social change in the People's Republic of China. This timely book examines the emerging structures of class and social stratification: how they are interpreted and managed by the Chinese Communist Party, and how they are understood and lived by people themselves. David Goodman details the emergence of a dominant class based on political power and wealth that has emerged from the institutions of the Party-state; a well-established middle class that is closely associated with the Party-state and a not-so-well-established entrepreneurial middle class; and several different subordinate classes in both the rural and urban areas. In doing so, he considers several critical issues: the extent to which the social basis of the Chinese political system has changed and the likely consequences; the impact of change on the old working class that was the socio-political mainstay of state socialism before the 1980s; the extent to which the migrant workers on whom much of the economic power of the PRC since the early 1980s has been based are becoming a new working class; and the consequences of China's growing middle class, especially for politics. The result is an invaluable guide for students and non-specialists interested in the contours of ongoing social change in China.

Author : Yan Sun
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501729980

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Corruption and Market in Contemporary China by Yan Sun Pdf

Is corruption an inevitable part of the transition to a free-market economy? Yan Sun here examines the ways in which market reforms in the People's Republic of China have shaped corruption since 1978 and how corruption has in turn shaped those reforms. She suggests that recent corruption is largely a byproduct of post-Mao reforms, spurred by the economic incentives and structural opportunities in the emerging marketplace. Sun finds that the steady retreat of the state has both increased mechanisms for cadre misconduct and reduced disincentives against it. Chinese disciplinary offices, law enforcement agencies, and legal professionals compile and publish annual casebooks of economic crimes. The cases, processed in the Chinese penal system, represent offenders from party-state agencies at central and local levels as well as state firms of varying sizes and types of ownership. Sun uses these casebooks to illuminate the extent and forms of corruption in the People's Republic of China. Unintended and informal mechanisms arising from corruption may, she finds, take on a life of their own and undermine the central state's ability to implement its developmental policies, discipline its staff, enforce its regulatory infrastructure, and fundamentally transform the economy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004680883

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On Rural Society and Village Governance in Contemporary China by Anonim Pdf

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 : Jacques deLisle,Avery Goldstein
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815737261

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To Get Rich Is Glorious by Jacques deLisle,Avery Goldstein Pdf

" In 1978, China launched economic reforms that have resulted in one of history’s most dramatic national transformations. The reforms removed bureaucratic obstacles to economic growth and tapped China’s immense reserves of labor and entrepreneurial talent to unleash unparalleled economic growth in the country. In the four decades since, China has become the world’s second-largest economy after the United States, and a leading force in international trade and investment. As the contributors to this volume show, China also faces daunting challenges in sustaining growth, continuing its economic ransformation, addressing the adverse consequences of economic success, and dealing with mounting suspicion from the United States and other trade and investment partners. China also confronts risks stemming from the project to expand its influence across the globe through infrastructure investments and other projects under the Belt and Road Initiative. At the same time, China’s current leader, Xi Jinping, appears determined to make his own lasting mark on the country and on China’s use of its economic clout to shape the world around it. "

Author : Emily T. Yeh,Kevin J. O'Brien,Jingzhong Ye
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317661757

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Rural Politics in Contemporary China by Emily T. Yeh,Kevin J. O'Brien,Jingzhong Ye Pdf

This collection provides an overview of China’s rural politics, bringing scholarship on agrarian politics from various social science disciplines together in one place. The twelve contributions, spanning history, anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, political science, and geography, address enduring questions in peasant studies, including the relationship between states and peasants, taxation, social movements, rural-urban linkages, land rights and struggles, gender relations, and environmental politics. Taking rural politics as the power-inflected processes and struggles that shape access and control over resources in the countryside, as well as the values, ideologies and discourses that shape those processes, the volume brings research on China into conversation with the traditions and concerns of peasant studies scholarship. It provides both an introduction to those unfamiliar with Chinese politics, as well as in-depth, new research for experts in the field. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Author : Daniel Kelliher
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300105657

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Peasant Power in China by Daniel Kelliher Pdf

Between 1979 and 1989, rural life in China was transformed: the communes were dismantled, tiny family farms were created, government domination of commerce and enterprise was eased, and many entrepreneurial ventures were brought to life. China's rural reform was arguably the most massive single act of privatization in history. Although Deng Xiaoping's government claimed credit for the dramatic innovations, Daniel Kelliher shows that it was the peasants themselves--with no organization or legal political voice of their own--who instigated the most radical changes of the reform era. Drawing on his fieldwork in Hubei Province and neighboring provinces in south-central China, Kelliher traces the origins of reform in three areas--family farming, marketing, and private entrepreneurship--and details the local conspiracies, deceptions, and illegal experiments that peasants used to push state policy in new directions. He also addresses the larger issue of how disenfranchised peasants could affect politics at all under a strong state like that of China. Analyzing the evolution of state socialism in China, Kelliher explains how state ambitions for modernization in the post-Mao era made the state-socialist system vulnerable to rising peasant power. He also shows why the state seized upon economic privatization as a way of securing its political base among the peasantry. The book not only offers a wide-ranging portrait of rural politics in contemporary China but also uses the Chinese case to illuminate state-peasant relations, reform in state socialism, and privatization in other third world nations.