Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era

by Zweig,David

• ISBN13: 9781563248375
• ISBN10: 1563248379
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Publication Acknowledgments	ix	(2)
Preface and Acknowledgments	xi	(4)
Tables and Figures	xv
Introduction: Scholarly Debates and Rural Development as the Countryside Moves into the Twenty-First Century	3	(40)
Part I: Restructuring Property Rights and Decollectivization	43	(68)
1. Opposition to Change in Rural China	43	(17)
2. Decollectivization in China, 1977-1983: Dynamics Between Context and Content in Policy Implementation	60	(26)
3. Explaining Diversity in Rural China: Embedded Interests and Decollectivization in Jiangsu Province, 1978-1983	86	(25)
Part II: Conflicts, Norms, and the Search for New Institutions	111	(74)
4. Prosperity and Conflict in Post-Mao Rural China	111	(19)
5. Struggling over Land in China: Statist Hegemonies and Villager Resistance, 1966-1986	130	(21)
6. Law, Contracts, and Economic Modernization: New Institutions for Conflict Resolution under the Rural Reforms	151	(34)
Part III: Markets, Hierarchy, and the Restructuring of Urban-Rural Relations	185	(68)
7. From Village to City: Reforming Urban-Rural Relations	185	(18)
8. Dilemmas of Partial Reform: State and Collective Firms versus the Rural Private Sector	203	(18)
9. Urbanizing Rural China: Bureaucratic Authority and Local Autonomy	221	(32)
Part IV: Industrialization and Internationalization: Rural China Turns Outward	253	(76)
10. Rural Industry: Weathering the Storms of Central State Policy	253	(21)
11. Internationalizing China's Countryside: The Political Economy of Exports from Rural Industry	274	(26)
12. "Developmental Communities" on China's Coast: The Impact of Trade, Investment, and Transnational Alliances	300	(29)
Part V: Reviewing the Record	329	(28)
13. Development, Freedom and the Future of Rural China	329	(28)
Index	357