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