Small Towns in China
Author | : Xiaotong Fei |
Publisher | : China Books & Periodicals |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Xiaotong Fei |
Publisher | : China Books & Periodicals |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bingqin Li |
Publisher | : IIED |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Hierarchies |
ISBN | : 1843697408 |
Author | : Shaohua Zhu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2019-05-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783659858611 |
Author | : Richard J. R. Kirkby |
Publisher | : Dartmouth Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
This book provides a picture of the organisations, economy, administration and lifestyles in three 'small towns' occupying very different positions within a developmental spectrum in China in the late 1990s. The authors argue that a major change in planning policy in 1978 to dam the flood of migration from rural areas to large cities encouraged rural migrants to move instead to small towns and activated numerous economic and social incentives. This has proved to be so successful that the majority of the Chinese population now lives in small towns and they are stilt growing rapidly. (Adapté du résumé de l'éditeur).
Author | : Jie Fan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2015-05-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317460634 |
This book reports the findings of two field studies conducted between 1993 and 2001 in seven townships and six provinces in China. The authors describe the process of rural urbanization and its related economic, social, and political changes by focusing mainly on the zhen (town), in addition to administrative offices and companies involved in the local economy, and village committees. The authors show that the social changes resulting from China's economic reforms are occurring mainly from below, and that this process is also resulting in a weakening of the economic and political dominance of the central government. Other changes discussed in this study include the development of new ownership structures and the increasing dominance of the private sector; a shift in the functions of administrative offices as the bureaucracy becomes increasingly business oriented; the rise of a new local elite; a rebirth of traditional social structures (clans, local associations); and the emergence of new interest groups and institutions to represent their needs.
Author | : Beatriz Carrillo Garcia |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2011-04-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1136735151 |
While much has been written about rural migrant workers’ experiences in the big cities, population movements into China’s vast network of towns and small cities has been largely neglected. This book presents a detailed case study of rural migrant workers experiences in a small town in a north China county. The author explores the processes and institutions that enable or preclude the social inclusion of rural workers into the town’s socio-economic system. Inclusion and exclusion are assessed through an examination of rural workers’ immersion into the urban labour market, their access to welfare benefits and to social services, such as housing, education and health. The book proposes that outside the larger cities there are alternative accounts of urban social change and of the integration of rural migrant workers. It stresses the fact that the particular socio-economic structure of towns, where the state-owned share of the economy has been smaller and where consequently social and private forces have been more active, allowed for a more open inclusion of rural workers. Though shortcomings are still observed, the book suggests that China's transformation may not necessarily result in dysfunctional and socially polarized urban environments. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of China’s rural migrant workers, bottom-up urbanization and small town development, social policy, and more broadly on contemporary social change in China.
Author | : Xiaotong Fei |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1989-05-19 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780226239606 |
This collection of essays written from 1947-1986 by Fei Hsiao-tung, China's most distinguished sociologist and anthropologist, presents a rich and representative sampling of the research that has characterized his long career. In 1936, Fei conducted field work in Kaixian'gong, a village in Jiangsu province in east China. This village became the subject of his now classic study Peasant Life in China, in which he argued that, because of China's huge population and the scarcity of cultivable land, household industries such as production of raw silk were vital to the peasants' economic survival. His conclusions, long rejected by China's policymakers, have recently been embraced by the government under the political leadership of Deng Xiaopeng. Returning to Kaixian'gong in 1957 and again in the 1980s, Fei examined the changes that had occurred since his initial research. Three essays that resulted from these follow-up studies are included in this collection, providing a rare summary and analysis of developments in the village between 1936 and 1986. Also included here are four articles based on Fei's 1983-84 research in other areas of Jiangsu province. His explorations of the contrast between the wealth of southern Jiangsu and the long-standing poverty of the northern half of the province address key issues of public policy in China today. Useful to students of rural sociology as well as of Chinese history, politics, economics, and anthropology, this collection will provide an overview not only of developments in the small towns of China but also of Fei's thought.