Taxation Without Representation in Contemporary Rural China

Klappentext This book provides the first, in-depth English study of the tax burden problems farmers face in China. Zusammenfassung This book provides the first! in-depth English study of the problem of aggressive taxation by local governments in China and explains how this has played a large role in the development gap between urban and rural areas and in the disaffection of a large proportion of the population in rural China. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Peasants and taxation in historical perspective; 3. Extracting funds from the peasants; 4. Institutional sources of informal tax burdens; 5. Burdens and resistance: peasant collective action; 6. Containing burdens: change and persistence; 7. Burden reduction: village democratization and farmer national interest representation; 8. Conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Bernstein, Thomas P. Bernstein, Xiaobo L, Xiaobo Lu, Xiaobo Lü
• Assisted by: William Kirby (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2003
• EAN: 9780521813181
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81318-1
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge Modern China (Hardco
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education