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Organizing Rural China - Rural China Organizing (Hardcover)
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Organizing Rural China - Rural China Organizing (Hardcover)
Series: Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
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During 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 signalled 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: Boarding schools where rural children learn to accept
organizational hierarchies; lineage organizations carving out new
roles for themselves; dragonhead enterprises expected to organize
agricultural production and support rural development, and several
others. The book is of theoretical interest because of its focus on
the re-embedding, or reintegration, of individuals into new types
of collectivities, which are less predetermined by tradition and
habit and more a matter of, at least perceived, individual choice.
Most chapters are based on extensive fieldwork and contain vivid
examples from daily life, which will make the book attractive to
anyone who wants to understand how Chinese villagers experience the
extraordinary social changes they are going through.
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