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Book SynopsisThe rapid marketization of rural labor, agricultural products, and land has dramatically reshaped village life and its structures of governance. This volume, edited by Alexander F. Day, collects twelve key essays translated from Chinese on this transformation of rural society and governance over the past 20 years. These essays, originally published in the leading Chinese-language journal Open Times (开放时代), cover class differentiation, the atomization of rural society, the hollowing out of rural governance, land transfer, rural activism against marketization, lineage politics, the role of agricultural cooperatives, the transformation of small peasant farmers into wage labor, and the disintegration and expansion of peasant petitioning, all exploring the transformation in rural China during the post-socialist era.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Capitalist Agrarian Change and Rural Society Alexander F. Day 1 On the Involution of Rural Governance: a Study of K Town in Henan He Xuefeng (贺雪峰) Translated by Shayan Momin 2 The Multilayered Instrumental Mode of Association in Modern Rural China’s Social Integration Based on Field Research from Qiao Village Tan Tongxue (谭同学) Translated by Heather Mowbray 3 Organizational Intervention or Individually-Led Transfer Research on the Effects of Peasant Land-Management Rights and Transfer Behavior—Research Based on 1,025 Rural Household Transfers’ Rent Price and Degree of Satisfaction Fu Zhenqi (付振奇) and Chen Shuyun (陈淑云) Translated by Kristopher W. Pickett 4 Reflections on a Decade in the New Rural Reconstruction Movement: the Case of Kaifeng He Huili (何慧丽), Cheng Xiaorui (程晓蕊) and Zong Shifa (宗世法) Translated by Matthew A. Hale 5 Paths of Lineage Group Participation in Village Politics Jin Taijun (金太军) and Wang Junyang (王军洋) Translated by Matthew A. Hale and Phil A. Neel 6 Rural Marketization and the Rise of the Middle Class: a Survey of Chetou Township in Southern Jiangxi Province Chen Baifeng (陈柏峰) Translated by Heather Mowbray 7 Capital Goes Down to the Countryside: Hidden Wage Relations and Capitalist Accumulation in Agriculture Chen Yiyuan (陈义媛) Translated by Matthew A. Hale 8 Peasant Mobility and Social Stratification in the Jianghan Plain: 1981–2010—An Investigation of Shuguang Village in Hebei Province Lin Huihuang (林辉煌) Translated by Kristopher W. Pickett 9 The “Middleman + Peasant” Model and Semi-Proletarianization Wu Guanghan (武广汉) Translated by Matthew A. Hale 10 From Rights Protection to Turning a Profit: a Logical Framework for Peasants’ Changing Protest Actions Tian Xianhong (田先红) Translated by Heather Mowbray 11 Rural Administrative Power and Classificatory Governance: a Paradigm Shift in Peasant Petition Research Shen Duanfeng (申端锋) Translated by Kristopher W. Pickett 12 Reestablishing Petitioning Politics: Overcoming the State’s Petitioning Dilemma Liu Zhengqiang (刘正强) Translated by Emily Hrivnak Cipriani Index
