The Transformation of Governance in Rural China: Market, Finance, and Political Authority (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107442078)

The outbreak of organised, violent peasant protests across the Chinese countryside from the late 1990s to the early 2000s has attracted much scholarly interest. In this study, An Chen endeavours to understand from these protests the question of the Chinese government's control in the countryside and the impact of this violent resistance on China's rural governance in the context of market liberalisation. Utilising extensive field research and data collected from surveys across rural China, the book provides an in-depth exploration of how rural governance in China has been transformed following two major tax reforms: the tax-for-fee reform of 2002-4, and the abolition of agricultural taxes (AAT) in 2005-6. In a multidimensional analysis which combines approaches from political science, economics, finance and sociology, Chen argues that private economic power has merged with political power in a way that has reshaped village governance in China, threatening to fundamentally change its political structure.

Author: An Chen
ISBN-10: 1107442079
ISBN-13: 9781107442078
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/29/2018
Pages: 407
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.84d