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Author Bernstein, Thomas P

Title Taxation without representation in contemporary rural China / Thomas P. Bernstein, Xiaobo Lü
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 282 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge modern China series
Cambridge modern China series.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Journals, Newspapers, Translation Services, and Abbreviations; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Peasants and Taxation in Historical Perspective; 3 Extracting Funds from the Peasants; 4 Institutional Sources of Informal Tax Burdens; 5 Burdens and Resistance: Peasant Collective Action; 6 Containing Burdens: Change and Persistence; 7 Burden Reduction: Village Democratization and Farmer National Interest Representation; 8 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
Summary Provides the first, in-depth English study of the problem of aggressive taxation by local governments in China and explains how this has played a large role in the development gap between urban and rural areas and in the disaffection of a large proportion of the population in rural China
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-270) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Taxation -- China
Tax incidence -- China
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Taxation.
Politics and government
Tax incidence
Taxation
Steuerpolitik
Belastingen.
Platteland.
Impôt -- Chine.
Politique fiscale -- Chine.
Développement rural -- Chine -- Finances.
SUBJECT China -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024153
Subject China
China
Chine -- Politique et gouvernement.
Form Electronic book
Author Lü, Xiaobo, 1959-
ISBN 9780511064722
0511064721
0511073186
9780511073182
9780511509971
0511509979
9780521082891
0521082897