{"product_id":"organizing-rural-china-rural-china-organizing-9780739170090","title":"Organizing Rural China  Rural China Organizing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the early 1980s China embarked on what can be seen as one of the world's largest social experiments ever. Decollectivization meant much more than the reorganization of agricultural production into family based farming. It signaled significant changes to rural social relations, when privatization, marketization and increased geographical mobility started tearing apart the economic and social institutions that had structured collective village life under Mao. The focus of this book is on how rural society has been reorganized in the 21st century. The first chapters outline the basic organizational structure of rural China and can be used as an introduction to the topic in a classroom setting. They show how the state and its social scientists draw up plans to overcome the perceived lack of rural social organization, and discuss the often problem-ridden implementation of their ideas. The second section presents case studies of institutions that organize key aspects of rural life: Bo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essays weave a fascinating landscape of contemporary rural society in China dominated no longer by homogenizing and centralizing policies but by an astonishing diversity of practices and temporalities. Long submerged temple communities, lineage structures, socialist ownership principles and cooperatives, urban initiatives, powerful agro-businesses and digital networks jostle and compete to offer new kinds of community and livelihood for the long-enduring peoples of this good earth. -- Prasenjit Duara, Raffles Professor of Humanities, National University of Singapore, and director of Asia Research Institute\u003cbr\u003eThe modernization of China’s vast and hugely important countryside has been a major concern for generations of the country’s political leaders and intellectuals and the issue has received renewed emphasis during the decade of the Hu-Wen administration. Organizing Rural China is a timely collection of fascinating studies which offer unique insights into the processes shaping the modernization of rural China. The Chinese and Western authors assembled here examine a broad range of actors involved from the political, social and economic realms and analyze state propaganda as well as relevant intellectual discourses. This comprehensive volume should be read by anyone interested in rural China’s development. -- Björn Alpermann, assistant professor of contemporary Chinese studies, University of Würzburg\u003cbr\u003eThis work is an in-depth and timely analysis of the development of organizations in rural China written by a wide range of well-established international experts. The book is a valuable textbook for students in development and Asian studies, and will be of great interest for scholars and professionals working on rural China. -- Peter Ho, University of Leiden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Chapter 1: Introduction, by Ane Bislev and Stig Thøgersen  Imagining Rural China: Policies, Discourses, Ideals Chapter 2: Continuity and Change in Rural China’s Organization, by Jonathan Unger Chapter 3: Organizing Rural China: Political and Academic Discourses, by Stig Thøgersen Chapter 4: Government Propaganda and the Organization of Rural China, by Christian Göbel Chapter 5: Stitching it All Back Up: The Role of Sent-Down Cadres in Rural Community Building?, by Unn Målfrid Rolandsen Chapter 6: Reconstructing Rural China from the Bottom: A Discussion of Some Recent Chinese Experiments, by Xu Yong and Ma Hua Chapter 7: Governing China’s Failed Villages: Between a “Weak State” and a Fragmented Society, by Liu Yiqiang Organizing Rural China: Actors and Local Practices Chapter 8: Life in a Rural Boarding School: Learning to Organize and to Be Organized, by Mette Halskov Hansen Chapter 9: Organizing Rural Health Care, by Mikkel Bunkenborg Chapter 10: Lineages and the State: Re-inventing Lineages and Ancestor Ceremonies as Cultural Heritage, by Marina Svensson Chapter 11: Native Place in Cyberspace: The Civic Enagement of an Internet Community, by Pang Cuiming Chapter 12: Embedded Microcredit—Creating Village Cohesion on the Basis of Existing Social Networks, by Ane Bislev Chapter 13: A Value Chain Gone Awry: Implications of the “Tainted Milk Scandal” in 2008 for Political and Social Organization in Rural China, by Jørgen Delman and Yang Minghong Reflections Chapter 14: Modern\/Rural China: State Institutions and Village Values, by Vivienne Shue Index About the Editors","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037509321047,"sku":"9780739170090","price":88.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780739170090.jpg?v=1750936023","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/organizing-rural-china-rural-china-organizing-9780739170090","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}