Institutional Logics and Practice of the Evolution of Urban-rural Relationships

This book mainly analyzes the major issues at all phases of the transition of urban-rural relation, as well as measures adopted by the transition launcher in face of such issues, including not only the system and policy design of the national and local government, but the countermeasures of basic-level units at urban and rural areas and the people. Through reference of the social structure and social behavior, it proposes “opportunity structures”, “interactive mechanism” and “behavior strategies” for different periods, which to some degree promotes the transition of urban-rural relation and brings in new, more complicated issues for the development. It is under the impact of such new and existing issues that big problem follows when the urban-rural relation steps onto a new stage, showing several paths and practices different from the general urbanization and modernization theories.

Xiaoye She, once served as researcher of Institute of Sociology and National Institute of Social Development of Chinese Academy of Social Science, and professor of the school of postgraduate. She’s been long devoted to the research on organizational sociology, economic sociology, community development in rural area, and urban-rural relation, with her study findings and theses published on periodicals such as Social Science of China and Study on Sociology, and published works as Restructuring of Villages – Social Transition of a Super Village (1997), Practice of Community (co-authored, 2000) and Cities at Turning Points (1989).

Yun Ai, postdoctor and assistant researcher of National Institute of Social Development of Chinese Academy of Social Science, who graduated from Peking University in 2011 for a doctoral degree in sociology, and visited Friedman International Research Center of Stanford University as a guest scholar from Jan. 2009 to Jan. 2011. Her major fields of study include the study on organization and system, and economic sociology. She used to have her theses published on Social Science of China, Society, The China Quarterly and Research in the Sociology of Organization.