TY - BOOK AU - Fan,Jie AU - Heberer,Thomas AU - Taubmann,Wolfgang TI - Rural China: economic and social change in the late twentieth century SN - 9780765624383 AV - HN733.5 .F35 2006eb U1 - 306/.0951/091734 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Armonk, N.Y. PB - M.E. Sharpe KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Anthropology KW - Cultural KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Public Policy KW - Cultural Policy KW - Popular Culture KW - Rural conditions KW - fast KW - Social conditions KW - Stadt KW - gnd KW - Ländlicher Raum KW - Sozialer Wandel KW - Wirtschaftsentwicklung KW - China KW - 1976-2000 KW - Chine KW - Conditions sociales KW - Electronic books KW - gtlm N1 - "An East gate book."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-343) and index; Introduction -- Zhen settlements : between urban and rural -- Field research : fieldwork procedure and the surveyed Zhen -- Settlements and population -- Economic structures and economic change -- Finance system and the development of rural towns (Zhen) -- Processes of change in administration and politics -- Rise of a new social stratification and of new local elites -- Value change and interest articulation -- Summary and evaluation; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - This book reports the findings of two field studies between 1993 and 2001 in seven townships and six provinces in China. The authors find that the process of rural urbanization is bringing about profound economic, social, and political changes that are weakening the dominance of the central government UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=275533 ER -