Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era (Socialism & Social Movements)

Zweig, David

ISBN 10: 1563248387 / ISBN 13: 9781563248382

Published by Routledge, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era (Socialism & Social Movements)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1563248387
• ISBN 13: 9781563248382
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A comprehensive analysts 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.

About the Author

David Zweig