At the turn of the millennium, the disparities between rural and urban livelihoods, underdevelopment and administrative shortcomings in the Chinese countryside were increasingly seen as posing a manifest threat to social harmony and economic and political stability. At that time the term "three rural problems" ("sannong wenti") was coined which defined the main issues of rural life that needed to be targeted by government action: agriculture ("nongye"), villages ("nongcun") and farmers ("nongmin"). In turn, with the launch of the 11th Five-Year Plan in 2006, a pledge was made to shift the...
At the turn of the millennium, the disparities between rural and urban livelihoods, underdevelopment and administrative shortcomings in the Chinese...
This monograph ties in the scholarly debate on Chinese village elections and their consequences for China's political system. It draws on comparative fieldwork conducted in six villages in two counties in Jiangxi and Jilin Provinces and one district in Shenzhen between 2002 and 2005, producing data from some 140 in-depth interviews of villagers and local officials up to the prefectural level. The major objective of this book is as much a critical assessment of the research literature of Chinese village elections published over the last fifteen years as to sharpen the reader's sight for the...
This monograph ties in the scholarly debate on Chinese village elections and their consequences for China's political system. It draws on comparative ...
