Rural Politics in Contemporary China

Taylor & Francis

Rural Politics in Contemporary ChinaAuthor(s): Emily T. Yeh, Kevin O'Brien, Jingzhong Ye\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138787001, 978-1138787001\nSynopsis\nThis collection provides an overview of Chinas rural politics, bringing scholarship on agrarian politics from various social science disciplines together in one place. The twelve contributions, spanning history, anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, political science, and geography, address enduring questions in peasant studies, including the relationship between states and peasants, taxation, social movements, rural-urban linkages, land rights and struggles, gender relations, and environmental politics. Taking rural politics as the power-inflected processes and struggles that shape access and control over resources in the countryside, as well as the values, ideologies and discourses that shape those processes, the volume brings research on China .