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1 online resource (254 pages) |
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Routledge Contemporary China Series |
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Routledge contemporary China series.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; Politics and Markets in Rural China; Copyright Page; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; List of abbreviations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction: politics and markets in rural China: Björn Alpermann; Part I: Factor markets; 1. Agrarian change in China: the commodification of collective land: René Trappel; 2. The constricted evolution of China's rural labor market: Günter Schucher; 3. Greasing the wheels of development: rural credit in China: Lynette H. Ong |
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4. Franchising the state: farmers, agricultural technicians, and the marketization of agricultural services: Graeme SmithPart II: Product markets; 5. Grain market and policy in China: Li Xiande, Wang Shihai, and Jia Yan; 6. The reorganization of the sugar industry in China in the context of globalization: insights from Guangxi province: Louis Augustin-Jean; 7. China's cotton sector: the politics of a managed market: Björn Alpermann; 8. The role of the state in modernizing China's fine wool marketing sector: Scott A. Waldron, Colin G. Brown, andJohn W. Longworth; Part III: Rural policies |
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9. Paving the road to a socialist new countryside: China's rural tax and fee reform: Christian Göbel10. Building a new socialist countryside: model villages in Hubei: Stig Thøgersen; 11. The nature of cooperatives in China: the implementation and paradoxes of the law on cooperatives in Shanxi province: Louis Augustin-Jean and Xue Ruining; 12. Surveys and learning about village elections and rural China: an analysis of a 2005 national village election survey: John James Kennedy and Yaojiang Shi |
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13. The end of urban-rural differentiation in China?: Hukou and resettlement in Chengdu's urban-rural integration: Jesper W. Zeuthen and Michael B. GriffithsIndex |
| Summary |
Thirty years have passed since the beginning of the reform era in China which saw important changes in agriculture and rural organizations, but it is clear that certain entrenched legacies from pre-reform China still linger on even after WTO accession, most importantly the key role played by state actors and politics in general in the development of markets in rural China. Although increasingly diversified markets have emerged for major agricultural inputs and products, their development cannot be understood without taking this role into account. Moreover, the current central government has em |
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Print version record |
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Agriculture and state -- China
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Cities and towns -- Growth.
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urban sprawl.
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suburban growth.
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Agriculture and state
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Cities and towns -- Growth
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024178
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China -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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| Subject |
China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203814888 |
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0203814886 |
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