Generated for a January 1995 international conference in Leiden, the Netherlands, 11 papers cover the cooperative heritage and the rural framework, economic relations and organization, and political and social organizations from the 1950s to the 1990s. The specific titles include village committees as the basis for China's democratization, the free-rider problem in pastoral areas in Ningxia as an example of ownership and control in rangeland management since Mao, and the collective foundations for rapid rural industrialization. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Following China's successful decollectivization, diverse new organizational forms arose in response to different local situations. The contributors dissect the relationships among the emerging class of entrepreneurs, local officials, and their family members and associates.
Acknowledgments vii(2) Summary of the
Chapters ix(4) About the Editors and Contributors xiii Introduction: Chinas New Rural Organization 3(14) Eduard B. Vermeer Part I. The Cooperative Heritage and the Rural Framework 17(76)
1. Household, Cooperative, and State in the Remaking of Chinas Countryside 17(29) Mark Selden
2. What Is a Village? 46(29) Stephan Feuchtwang
3. The Role of Common Property Regimes in Managing Common-Pool Resources in China Today 75(18) Margaret McKean Part II. Economic Relations and Organization 93(146)
4. The Collective Foundation for Rapid Rural Industrialization 93(17) Jean C. Oi
5. Township-Village Enterprises, Local Governments, and Rural Communities: The Chinese Village as a Firm during Economic Transition 110(26) Pei Xiaolin
6. Decollectivization and Functional Change in Irrigation Management in China 136(38) Eduard B. Vermeer
7. Institutions, Households, and Groundwater in an Inner Mongolian Oasis 174(22) John Morton Robin Grimble
8. Ownership and Control in Chinese Rangeland Management Since Mao: A Case-Study of the Free-Rider Problem in Pastoral Areas in Ningxia 196(43) Peter Ho Part III. Political and Social Organization 239(52)
9. Village Committees: The Basis for Chinas Democratization 239(17) Wang Zhenyao
10. Networks, Groups, and the State in the Rural Economy of Raoyang County, Hebei Province 256(17) Frank N. Pieke
11. Defining Cultural Life in the Chinese Countryside: The Case of the Chuan Zhu Temple 273(18) John Flower Pamela Leonard Index 291
Eduard B. Vermeer, Frank N. Pieke, Woei Lien Chong
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