Volume I 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 Volume II 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 Professor at Central China Normal University who currently serves as Chief of its Political Science Department. He has been devoted to the research of rural China and Chinese politics and has had 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), and The State: In the Change of Social Relations (Volume I and II) (2020).
