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"Since China entered the post-Mao ""Reform Era"" in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Chinese economy has taken off as few economies ever have. labour migration, rural enterprises, rising production, and globalization have all combined to end the isolation of the Chinese countryside. Yet although China's unsurpassed economic boom has produced reams of impressive statistics, has this economic growth led to improving the livelihood of the average Chinese person? Has development accompanied economic growth? Has the promise of ""opening to the outside"" been fulfilled in providing a better life for China's 1.2 billion-plus people? In this book, which is based on field work, Guldin presents and explores some of the changes sweeping through China in the 1990s that are affecting hundreds of millions of people. Guldin looks at the growth of town and village enterprises, labour mobility, and the other aspects of rural urbanization to investigate the connection between economic growth and development in contemporary China. The political changes at the village level, the swelling flows of capital, data, goods, and people, new ways of thinking and behaving, and a significant surge in social inequalities are all topics for chapter discussions. Guldin invites readers to face the same question that former Chinese peasants must face, namely, how to respond, as their villages are transformed forever."

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Author:   Greg Guldin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Westview Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9780813338002

ISBN 10:   081333800
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   26 January 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

Townizing Southern China , Introduction: Reflections on Growth and Development , Townizing Southern China 1 , District Differences , Village Becoming Town , The Entrepreneur and the Cadre: The Political Economy of Townization , Townizing Flows in the Chinese Countryside , Population Moility, Hukou Preference, and Urbanization , Townizing Life , Richer, Freer, and Goods Galore: Lifestyle Changes , She’s Got Everything! , Thinking , Townizing Life , Problems Amidst Plenty , The Waishengren Are Coming! , Inequalities , Conclusion: What Are Peasants to Do? , Glossary

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Gregory Eliyu Guldin is a cultural anthropologist with long experience in the study of changing Chinese society.

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