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Peasants --- Rural population --- Agricultural population --- Farm population --- Population --- Sociology, Rural

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How does China maintain authoritarian rule while it is committed to market-oriented economic reforms? This book analyzes this puzzle by offering a systematic analysis of the central-local governmental relationship in rural China, focusing on rural taxation and political participation. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Chinese local officials and villagers, and combining them with game-theoretic analyses, it argues that the central government uses local governments as a target of blame for the problems that the central government has actually created. The most recent rural tax reforms, which began in 2000, were a conscious trade-off between fiscal crises and rural instability. For the central government, local fiscal crises and the lack of public goods in agricultural areas were less serious concerns than the heavy financial burdens imposed on farmers and the rural unrest that the predatory extractive behavior of local governments had generated in the 1990s, which threatened both economic reforms and authoritarian rule.

Fiscal policy --- Taxation --- Rural population --- Rural development --- Agricultural population --- Farm population --- Population --- Sociology, Rural --- E-books

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In recent decades, globalization has transformed rural societies and economies across the world. Much has been written by social scientists about the actors and structures underpinning these transformations and the effects on particular social groups, organizations and industries. Yet, to date much less attention has been given to the specific global processes that are fundamental to contemporary rural change. Rural Change and Global Processes provides a systematic analysis of the key global processes transforming rural spaces in the early 21st century financialization; standardization; consumption, and commodification. Through detailed case studies, the book examines why these processes are important, how they work in practice, and the challenges they raise as well as opportunities created. The book will be of particular relevance to researchers, graduate students, and policy-makers interested in the implications of global processes for rural people and livelihoods.

Sociology, Rural. --- Rural sociology --- Sociology --- Globalization --- Rural population. --- Social Science --- Rural communities. --- Economic aspects. --- Rural. --- Agricultural population --- Farm population --- Population --- Sociology, Rural

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High technology industries --- Industries --- Occupations --- Rural population --- Agricultural population --- Farm population --- Population --- Sociology, Rural --- Career patterns --- Careers --- Jobs --- Trades --- Vocational guidance --- Work --- Southern States --- Economic conditions.

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The role of the peasant in society has been fundamental throughout China's history, posing difficult, much-debated questions for Chinese modernity. Today, as China becomes an economic superpower, the issue continues to loom large. Can the peasantry be integrated into a new Chinese capitalism, or will it form an excluded and marginalized class? Alexander F. Day's highly original appraisal explores the role of the peasantry throughout Chinese history and its importance within the development of post-socialist-era politics. Examining the various ways in which the peasant is historicized, Day shows how different perceptions of the rural lie at the heart of the divergence of contemporary political stances and of new forms of social and political activism in China. Indispensable reading for all those wishing to understand Chinese history and politics, The Peasant in Postsocialist China is a new point of departure in the debate as to the nature of tomorrow's China.

Peasants --- Rural population --- Agricultural population --- Farm population --- Population --- Sociology, Rural --- Peasantry --- Agricultural laborers --- Marks (Medieval land tenure) --- Villeinage --- History --- China --- Economic policy --- Social policy. --- Politics and government --- E-books --- History. --- Arts and Humanities