1st Edition

What's A Peasant To Do? Village Becoming Town In Southern China

By Greg Guldin Copyright 2001
322 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

Since China entered the post-Mao "Reform Era" in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Chinese economy has taken off as few economies ever have. Labor migration, rural enterprises, rising production, and globalization have all combined to end the isolation of the Chinese countryside. Yet although China's unsurpassed economic boom has produced reams of impressive statistics, has this economic growth... Read more
Townizing Southern China , Introduction: Reflections on Growth and Development , Townizing Southern China 1 , District Differences , Village Becoming Town , The Entrepreneur and the Cadre: The Political Economy of Townization , Townizing Flows in the Chinese Countryside , Population Moility, Hukou Preference, and Urbanization , Townizing Life , Richer, Freer, and Goods Galore: Lifestyle Changes , She’s Got Everything! , Thinking , Townizing Life , Problems Amidst Plenty , The Waishengren Are Coming! , Inequalities , Conclusion: What Are Peasants to Do? , Glossary

Biography

Greg Guldin