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Cadres and Kin
Author | : Gregory A. Ruf |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780804765183 |
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Building on ethnographic research in a rural village in Sichuan, this book examines changing relationships between social organization, politics, and economy during the 20th century.
Modern Chinese Religion II 1850 2015 2 vols
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1127 |
Release | : 2015-10-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004304642 |
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This book examines the transformation of values in China since 1850, first in the “secular” realms of economics, science, medicine, aesthetics, media and gender, and then in each of the major religions (Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity) and in Marxist discourse.
Rural China Economic and Social Change in the Late Twentieth Century
Author | : Jie Fan,Thomas Heberer,Wolfgang Taubmann |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2015-05-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781317460640 |
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This book reports the findings of two field studies conducted between 1993 and 2001 in seven townships and six provinces in China. The authors describe the process of rural urbanization and its related economic, social, and political changes by focusing mainly on the zhen (town), in addition to administrative offices and companies involved in the local economy, and village committees. The authors show that the social changes resulting from China's economic reforms are occurring mainly from below, and that this process is also resulting in a weakening of the economic and political dominance of the central government. Other changes discussed in this study include the development of new ownership structures and the increasing dominance of the private sector; a shift in the functions of administrative offices as the bureaucracy becomes increasingly business oriented; the rise of a new local elite; a rebirth of traditional social structures (clans, local associations); and the emergence of new interest groups and institutions to represent their needs.
Collecting Food Cultivating People
Author | : Kathryn Michelle De Luna |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : 9780300218534 |
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A rich analysis of the complex dynamic between food collection and food production in the farming societies of precolonial south central Africa Engaging new linguistic evidence and reinterpreting published archaeological evidence, this sweeping study explores the place of bushcraft and agriculture in the precolonial history of south central Africa across nearly three millennia. Contrary to popular conceptions that place farming at the heart of political and social change, political innovation in precolonial African farming societies was actually contingent on developments in hunting, fishing, and foraging, as de Luna reveals.
Moral Politics in a South Chinese Village
Author | : Hok Bun Ku |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2003-08-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781461639367 |
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Exploring sensitive issues often hidden to outsiders, this engaging study traces the transformation and economic development of a south China village during the first tumultuous decade of reform. Drawing on a wealth of intimate detail, Ku explores the new sense of risk and mood of insecurity experienced in the post-reform era in Ku Village, a typical hamlet beyond the margins of richer suburban areas or fertile farmland. Villagers' dissatisfaction revolves around three key issues: the rising cost of living, mounting agricultural expenses, and the forcible implementation of birth-control quotas. Faced with these daunting problems, villagers have developed an array of strategies. Their weapons include resisting policies they consider unreasonable by disregarding fees, evading taxes, and ignoring strict family planning regulations; challenging the rationale of official policies and the legitimacy of the local government and its officials; and reestablishing clan associations to supercede local Party authority. Using lively everyday narratives and compelling personal stories, Ku argues that rural people are not in fact powerless and passive; instead they have their own moral system that informs their everyday family lives, work, and political activities. Their code embodies concepts of fairness and justice, a concrete definition of the relationship between the state and its citizens, an understanding of the boundaries and responsibilities of each party, and a clear notion of what constitutes good and bad government and officials. On the basis of these principles, they may challenge existing policies and deny the authority of officials and the government, thereby legitimizing their acts of self-defense. Through his richly realized ethnography, Ku shows the reader a world of memorable, fully realized individuals striving to control their fate in an often arbitrary world.
Power Entitlement and Social Practice
Author | : Xiyi Huang |
Publsiher | : Chinese University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 9629963159 |
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"Rapid economic and social transformation in rural China has aroused enormous scholarly interest at home and abroad. However, a systematic study of this new mode of resource distribution is to date still underdeveloped; and the complexity of resource allocation in the present-day peasant society of China has not been surveyed as an independent theme. This book presents an effort to look into issues relating to the allocation of income, opportunities and assets in a village society; and thus, tries to shed light on the agent and mechanism of resource distribution in the post-reform era."--From publisher's website.
Peasants under Siege
Author | : Gail Kligman,Katherine Verdery |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 533 |
Release | : 2011-07-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781400840434 |
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In 1949, Romania's fledgling communist regime unleashed a radical and brutal campaign to collectivize agriculture in this largely agrarian country, following the Soviet model. Peasants under Siege provides the first comprehensive look at the far-reaching social engineering process that ensued. Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery examine how collectivization assaulted the very foundations of rural life, transforming village communities that were organized around kinship and status hierarchies into segments of large bureaucratic organizations, forged by the language of "class warfare" yet saturated with vindictive personal struggles. Collectivization not only overturned property relations, the authors argue, but was crucial in creating the Party-state that emerged, its mechanisms of rule, and the "new persons" that were its subjects. The book explores how ill-prepared cadres, themselves unconvinced of collectivization's promises, implemented technologies and pedagogies imported from the Soviet Union through actions that contributed to the excessive use of force, which Party leaders were often unable to control. In addition, the authors show how local responses to the Party's initiatives compelled the regime to modify its plans and negotiate outcomes. Drawing on archival documents, oral histories, and ethnographic data, Peasants under Siege sheds new light on collectivization in the Soviet era and on the complex tensions underlying and constraining political authority.
Class and Class Conflict in Post socialist China
Author | : Alvin Y. So |
Publsiher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789814449656 |
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This book uses a state-centered approach to trace the historical origins, developments, and evolutions of different patterns of class conflict among workers, peasants, capitalists, and the middle class in socialist and post-socialist China.