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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814272703321

Autore

Su Minzi <1967->

Titolo

China's rural development policy : exploring the "new socialist countryside" / / Minzi Su

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colorado : , : FirstForumPress, , 2009

ISBN

1-62637-303-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

307.1/4120951

Soggetti

Rural development - Government policy - China

China Rural conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-303) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The evolution of China's rural policy development -- Local government in action -- Rural life -- New rural development strategies -- Eight case studies -- What's working, what isn't -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

As China strives to achieve nothing less than a "harmonious society"—despite the pronounced and institutionalized class structure that divides rural Chinese from urban, eastern from western, and rich from poor— a key element of that effort is a "new socialist countryside." Minzi Su assesses the prospects for China's rural revitalization programs now in their initial stages. Su draws on her extensive, front-line field research to discover precisely why Beijing's rural development policies, though helping many, have thus far bypassed hundreds of millions of farm households. Not least, she also identifies the capacities and political-economic conditions that hold the greatest promise for successful policy implementation.