Transformation of Governance in Rural China - Market, Finance, and Political Authority

Explores the economic, social and financial changes that have transformed China's rural governance over the past twenty years.

List of contents

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 realignment in rural politics; 9. Entrepreneur cadres as new rural ruling elites; 10. Prospects for China's rural governance; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

An Chen (Ph.D., Yale University, Connecticut) is Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore and a former Senior Research Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is the author of Restructuring Political Power in China: Alliances and Opposition, 1978–1998 (1999). His recent publications have appeared in Politics and Society, Political Science Quarterly, Modern Asian Studies, China Quarterly, Modern China, Democratization, the Journal of Democracy, and the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.

Product details

• Authors: An CHEN, An (National University of Singapore) Chen, Chen An
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781107442078
• ISBN: 978-1-107-44207-8
• No. of pages: 407
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Rural communities, Politics & government, Political structure & processes, Public Administration, Regional government, Rural communities / rural life