1st Edition

Nationalisation, Peasantry and Rural Integration in China

By Xu Yong
384 Pages
by Routledge

This two-volume set examines the process of rural integration in modern China. In short, this is how the state penetrates the countryside and transforms the rural population, thus consolidating the foundation of modern state governance. Drawing on contemporary examples of state integration while observing the background of traditional China, this book systematically examines the entire process of... Read more

<HTML><META HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html;charset=utf-8">1. Introduction: The Modern State Integration of Rural Governance 2. Regimes, Political Parties and the Masses: Political Integration in the Countryside 3. Land, Products and Labour: Resource Integration in the Countryside 4. Mobilisation, Tasks and Orders: Administrative Integration in the countryside 5. Policies, Laws and Regulations: Institutional Integration in Rural Society_

<HTML><META HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html;charset=utf-8">1. Planning, Market, and Service: Rural Economic Consolidation 2. Extraction, Distribution, and Investment: Rural Fiscal Integration 3. Propaganda, Education, and Literature: Cultural Integration in the Countryside 4. Class, Collective, and Community: Rural Social Consolidation 5. Consumption, Fertility, and Health: Life Integration in Rural Society 6. Discourse, Transportation, and Information: Rural Technological Consolidation 7. Conclusion 8. Epilogue_

Biography

Xu Yong is a professor at Central China Normal University, who currently serves as the chief of its political science. He has been devoted to the research of rural China and Chinese politics and has a significant influence on the research on the relationship between the state and the country based on field study. His representative works include Unbalanced Chinese Politics: A Comparison of City and Country (1992), Villager Autonomy in Rural China (1997), The State: In the Change of Social Relations (Volume I and II) (2020).