The Transformation of Governance in Rural China
Market, Finance, and Political Authority
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About this book
The outbreak of organised, violent peasant protests across the Chinese countryside from the late 1990s to the early 2000s has attracted much scholarly interest. In this study, An Chen endeavours to understand from these protests the question of the Chinese government's control in the countryside and the impact of this violent resistance on China's rural governance in the context of market liberalisation. Utilising extensive field research and data collected from surveys across rural China, the book provides an in-depth exploration of how rural governance in China has been transformed following two major tax reforms: the tax-for-fee reform of 2002–4, and the abolition of agricultural taxes (AAT) in 2005–6. In a multidimensional analysis which combines approaches from political science, economics, finance and sociology, Chen argues that private economic power has merged with political power in a way that has reshaped village governance in China, threatening to fundamentally change its political structure.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Key Chinese terms (pinyin)
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The changing foundations of communist rule in China’s rural society
- 3 The 1994 tax reform and rural fiscal crises
- 4 The township in the era of reform
- 5 The mechanisms of political power in villages
- 6 Village finance: Its deterioration and consequences
- 7 The abolition of agricultural taxes and village governance
- 8 Transformed peasant society and re-alignment in rural politics
- 9 Entrepreneur cadres as new rural ruling elites
- 10 Prospects for China’s rural governance
- Appendix A Fieldwork and research sites
- Appendix B Author's surveys in China's five provinces
- Appendix C The survey questionnaire
- Bibliography
- Index