Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism - The Politics of Property Rights Under Reform

Informationen zum Autor Meg E. Rithmire earned her PhD in Government from Harvard University in 2011 and immediately joined the faculty of Harvard Business School as an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit, where she primarily teaches political economy. She was a Fulbright scholar in China from 2007–8. She is a member of the American Political Science Association (and the Urban Politics section) and the Association for Asian Studies. Klappentext This book explains the origins of Chinese land politics and explores how property rights and urban growth strategies differ among Chinese cities.Land development, real estate, and urban expansion have been central to Chinese economic growth over the last several decades, even in the absence of private property rights. This book explains the origins of contemporary land politics and explores how land conflict, property rights, and urban growth strategies differ among Chinese cities. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Property and politics in China; 2. The making of the real estate economy: urban reform and the origins of the party's land dilemma; 3. The political economies of China; 4. 'Land as a state asset': global capital and local state power in Dalian; 5. Property rights and distributive politics: urban conflict and change in Harbin, 1978 to the present; 6. Changchun motor city: the politics of compromise in an industrial town; 7. Conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Meg Rithmire, Meg E Rithmire, Meg E. Rithmire, Meg E. (Harvard Business School) Rithmire, Rithmire Meg E.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107117303
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11730-3
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Political structure & processes, Land Rights, Human rights, civil rights, Political structure and processes