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second issue, changes in inequality owing to market reform, the authors present mixed findings but contribute rich new data to the research on this issue.
List of contents
Zouping in perspective, Andrew G. Walder. Part 1 Local governments as economic actors: the evolution of local state corporatism, Jean C. Oi; the county government as an industrial corporation, Andrew G. Walder; Fengjia - a village in transtition, Huang Shu-min and Stewart Odend'hal; establishing markets - the process of commercialization in agriculture, Terry Sicular. Part 2 Distributional consequences of reform: work, wealth and power in agriculture - do political connections affect the returns to household labour?, Sarah Cook; preventive health care - privatization and the public good, Gail Henderson and T. Scott Stroup; making schools modern - paradoxes of educational reform, Lynn W. Paine.
About the author
Andrew G. Walder is Denise O’Leary and Kent Thiry Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. His previous books include Fractured Rebellion, which won the Barrington Moore Book Award, and China Under Mao (both from Harvard). A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Guggenheim fellow, Walder has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Science, and the Ford Foundation.
Summary
Zouping offers important general lessons for the study of China's rural transformation. The authors in this volume, all participants in a unique field research project undertaken from 1988 to 1992, address questions concerning the role of local governments as economic actors, market reform, and inequality.
