Growing Pains

by Oi, Jean C.

• ISBN13: 9781931368186
• ISBN10: 193136818X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-17
• Publisher: The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center

Summary

China is transforming itself and the world is adapting in response. Profound forces have reshaped the country's socioeconomic and political landscapes, but they have also brought challengesgrowing painsthat China must face if it is to continue its upward trajectory.

Author Biography

Jean C. OI, the William Haas Professor in Chinese Politics at Stanford University, directs the Stanford China Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. She is also an FSI senior fellow. Scott Rozelle holds the Helen Farnsworth Endowed Professorship at Stanford University. He is also a senior fellow and professor at Shorenstein APARC and in Stanford's Food Security and Environment Program. Xueguang Zhou is a professor of sociology and a senior fellow at FSI, Stanford University.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. IX
Introduction: Irresolvable Contradictions or Growing Pains? Perspectives on China's Challenges	p. XIII
Privatization and Markets
Political Crosscurrents in China's Corporate Restructuring	p. 5
Can China Meet Its Employment Challenges?	p. 27
The Marketization of Rural China: Gain or Pain for China's Two Hundred Million Farm Families?	p. 57
Rights and Rental: Are Rural Cultivated Land Policy and Management Constraining or Facilitating China's Modernization?	p. 87
Governance
Guilt and Punishment in China's War on Corruption	p. 117
Governing One Million Rural Communities After Two Decades: Are China's Village Elections Improving?	p. 143
Can a Falling Leaf Tell the Coming of Autumn? Making Sense of Village Elections in a Township … and in China	p. 167
Family Planning Enforcement in Rural China: Enduring State-Society Conflict?	p. 189
Public Goods and Citizen Reaction
Kan Bing Nan, Kan Bing Gui: Challenges for China's Health-care System Thirty Years into Reform	p. 229
Environmental Degradation as a Cost of China's Economic Growth: Transitional Setback or Irreversible Change?	p. 273
Fair versus Unfair: How Do Chinese Citizens View Current Inequalities	p. 305
Index	p. 333
About the Contributors	p. 359
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