This book is about how rural China is organized. Based on extensive fieldwork the authors present examples of both top-down and bottom-up social organizing and analyse the interplay between external and local actors.
This book is about how rural China is organized. Based on extensive fieldwork the authors present examples of both top-down and bottom-up social organizing and analyse the interplay between external and local actors.
Stig Thøgersen is professor of China studies at Aarhus University. He is the author of A County of Culture - Twentieth century China seen from the village schools of Zouping, Shandong (University of Michigan Press, 2002) and Doing Fieldwork in China (ed. with Maria Heimer, NIAS Press 2006). He has published several articles on social, political and cultural change in rural China in journals such as China Quarterly, China Journal, and Journal of Contemporary China. Besides rural organizations and rural reconstruction his main present research interest is in the life histories of Chinese overseas students. Ane Bislev is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University. She did her PhD on microcredit and social capital in Yunnan and Guizhou and is currently working on a project on the informal credit markets in rural China. She is the author of The Need for Capital: Social Capital and Microcredit in Southwest China (2010).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction, by Ane Bislev and Stig Thøgersen Imagining Rural China: Policies, Discourses, Ideals Chapter 2: Continuity and Change in Rural China's Organization, by Jonathan Unger Chapter 3: Organizing Rural China: Political and Academic Discourses, by Stig Thøgersen Chapter 4: Government Propaganda and the Organization of Rural China, by Christian Göbel Chapter 5: Stitching it All Back Up: The Role of Sent-Down Cadres in Rural Community Building?, by Unn Målfrid Rolandsen Chapter 6: Reconstructing Rural China from the Bottom: A Discussion of Some Recent Chinese Experiments, by Xu Yong and Ma Hua Chapter 7: Governing China's Failed Villages: Between a "Weak State" and a Fragmented Society, by Liu Yiqiang Organizing Rural China: Actors and Local Practices Chapter 8: Life in a Rural Boarding School: Learning to Organize and to Be Organized, by Mette Halskov Hansen Chapter 9: Organizing Rural Health Care, by Mikkel Bunkenborg Chapter 10: Lineages and the State: Re-inventing Lineages and Ancestor Ceremonies as Cultural Heritage, by Marina Svensson Chapter 11: Native Place in Cyberspace: The Civic Enagement of an Internet Community, by Pang Cuiming Chapter 12: Embedded Microcredit-Creating Village Cohesion on the Basis of Existing Social Networks, by Ane Bislev Chapter 13: A Value Chain Gone Awry: Implications of the "Tainted Milk Scandal" in 2008 for Political and Social Organization in Rural China, by Jørgen Delman and Yang Minghong Reflections Chapter 14: Modern/Rural China: State Institutions and Village Values, by Vivienne Shue Index About the Editors
Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction, by Ane Bislev and Stig Thøgersen Imagining Rural China: Policies, Discourses, Ideals Chapter 2: Continuity and Change in Rural China's Organization, by Jonathan Unger Chapter 3: Organizing Rural China: Political and Academic Discourses, by Stig Thøgersen Chapter 4: Government Propaganda and the Organization of Rural China, by Christian Göbel Chapter 5: Stitching it All Back Up: The Role of Sent-Down Cadres in Rural Community Building?, by Unn Målfrid Rolandsen Chapter 6: Reconstructing Rural China from the Bottom: A Discussion of Some Recent Chinese Experiments, by Xu Yong and Ma Hua Chapter 7: Governing China's Failed Villages: Between a "Weak State" and a Fragmented Society, by Liu Yiqiang Organizing Rural China: Actors and Local Practices Chapter 8: Life in a Rural Boarding School: Learning to Organize and to Be Organized, by Mette Halskov Hansen Chapter 9: Organizing Rural Health Care, by Mikkel Bunkenborg Chapter 10: Lineages and the State: Re-inventing Lineages and Ancestor Ceremonies as Cultural Heritage, by Marina Svensson Chapter 11: Native Place in Cyberspace: The Civic Enagement of an Internet Community, by Pang Cuiming Chapter 12: Embedded Microcredit-Creating Village Cohesion on the Basis of Existing Social Networks, by Ane Bislev Chapter 13: A Value Chain Gone Awry: Implications of the "Tainted Milk Scandal" in 2008 for Political and Social Organization in Rural China, by Jørgen Delman and Yang Minghong Reflections Chapter 14: Modern/Rural China: State Institutions and Village Values, by Vivienne Shue Index About the Editors
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