Author: Cheng Jin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319597701
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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This book provides a historical economic analysis of two key issues relating to township and village enterprise (TVE) development in China. Firstly, the nature of the evolving relationship between TVEs and local government; in particular how TVE entrepreneurs have used institutionalized power to secure the political influence needed to defend their financial independence. Secondly, the relationship between TVEs and state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and the role of SOEs in China’s economic transition. This study highlights the importance of the role of SOEs in the “dual-track pricing system” and its impact on other parts of the economy. Township and village enterprises were key to China's success in the late twentieth century, but have more or less disappeared as an entity over the past decade or so. By measuring the structural difference of the SOE sector before and after 1998–2003 SOE reform, Jin explains their fast catch-up in productivity since the mid-1990s, as well as the relative decline of TVE productivity.
Author: Ray Yep
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134457073
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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Institutional changes in rural China caused by the economic reforms of the post-Mao era have led to a new pattern of state-society interaction in the rural polity. Central to this is the spectacular rise of a group of managerial elites. Contrary to economic predictors, this has been accompanied by the development of an interdependence between these managers and the state. This book provides an analysis of the new state-society relationship and demonstrates the complexity and fluidity involved in institutional development and market transformation.
Author: Thomas DuBois
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004322493
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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Since its founding, the government of the People's Republic of China has strived to transform rural production, the theme of this volume of History of Contemporary China. Fourteen articles translated from the Chinese journal Contemporary History (Dangdai Zhongguo shi yanjiu) offer both empirical account and theoretical analysis of a broad range of historical events and issues, such as the guiding policy framework of the “three rural issues,” the causes and consequences of the deep plowing movement and the development of public canteens during the Great Leap Forward, child care, enterprises and collectives, and private lending in the post-Mao era, and the changing dynamics of interregional flows of goods and people throughout the second half of the 20th century. These studies shed light on the historical origins of some of the agricultural and rural problems in China today.
Author: Thomas Heberer
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004128576
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Based on extensive field research in China and Vietnam the book reveals that the new body of entrepreneurs is not only interested in social and political processes of change, but is also actively trying to shape them.
Author: An Chen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107081750
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409
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Explores the economic, social and financial changes that have transformed China's rural governance over the past twenty years.
Author: Andrew Watson
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415069734
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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China's reforms are being hailed as a model of how to transform a centrally-planned economy. This book shows that reform is not a uniform process and has affected major groups in Chinese society in different ways.
Author: Beatriz Carrillo Garcia
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136735143
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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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: Jean Chun Oi
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804737886
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Revisions of papers presented at a conference at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1996.
Author: Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198293118
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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This text argues that the underlying theme of China's development trajectory in the 20th century is reconstruction. Contributors examine how movements and transitions have affected China at regular periods during this century.
Author: Ingrid Hooghe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136124500
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Presents new insights into recent changes in China's legal framework in areas crucial to the modernisation process. Topics include law reform to accommodate foreign interests and convert China to a market economy, the judicial system and its treatment of human rights issues, the introduction of non-tariff barriers for foreign companies, and the current privatisation process.
