State and Peasant in Contemporary China: The Political Economy of Village Government Volume 30
(Part of the Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley Series)
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Book Overview
This is a study of peasant-state relations and village politics as they have evolved in response to the state's attempts to control the division of the harvest and extract the state-defined surplus. To provide the reader with a clearer sense of the evolution of peasant-state relations over almost a forty-year period and to highlight the dramatic changes that have taken place since 1978,1 have divided my analysis into two parts: Chapters 2 through...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520076370
ISBN13:9780520076372
Release Date:August 1991
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:308 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
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a fine book, intelligent theory backed by strong research
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Oi's book, which adopts a clientist model of rural Chinese politics is a well supported, and strongly argued analysis backed by extensive interviews with former participants at all levels of Chinese rural politics. An added pleasure for the student of Chinese is Oi's consistent use of "pinyin" Chinese equivalents of English terms such as "production brigade" which add color to the book's already fine prose.
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