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State and peasant in contemporary China : the political economy of village government /

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 almo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Oi, Jean C. (Jean Chun)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : University of California Press, 1991, ©1989.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations of Newspapers and Journals Cited
  • Note on Measures and Transliteration
  • Chapter 1. Peasant Politics in a Communist Economy: An Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Dividing the Harvest
  • Chapter 3. The Struggle over the Surplus
  • Chapter 4. Local Grain Reserves as a State Strategy, 1956-1978
  • Chapter 5. Bureaucratic Strategies of Control
  • Chapter 6. Evading Controls: Team Leader Strategies
  • Chapter 7. A Clientelist System: Collectivized Agriculture and Cadre Power
  • Chapter 8. A New State Strategy: Prices, Contracts, and Free Markets
  • Chapter 9. The Evolution of a Clientelist System: The Household Economy and Cadre Power
  • Chapter 10. State and Peasant in China: Concluding Reflections
  • Appendix A. Research and Documentation
  • Appendix B. List of Interviewees
  • References
  • Index