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Taxation without representation in contemporary rural China /
Provides the first, in-depth English study of the problem of aggressive taxation by local governments in China and explains how this has played a large role in the development gap between urban and rural areas and in the disaffection of a large proportion of the population in rural China.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Cambridge modern China series.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Journals, Newspapers, Translation Services, and Abbreviations; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Peasants and Taxation in Historical Perspective; 3 Extracting Funds from the Peasants; 4 Institutional Sources of Informal Tax Burdens; 5 Burdens and Resistance: Peasant Collective Action; 6 Containing Burdens: Change and Persistence; 7 Burden Reduction: Village Democratization and Farmer National Interest Representation; 8 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.