Power, entitlement and social practice : resource distribution in North China villages / Xiyi Huang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huang, Xiyi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Power (Social sciences)--China.

Power (Social sciences).

Patrilineal kinship--China.

Patrilineal kinship.

Social networks.

China--Rural conditions.

China.

Rural conditions.

Social networks--China.

Kinship--China.

Kinship.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 276 pages : illustrations, charts, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Chinese University Press, 2007.

Summary:

"Rapid economic and social transformation in rural China has aroused enormous scholarly interest at home and abroad. However, a systematic study of this new mode of resource distribution is to date still underdeveloped; and the complexity of resource allocation in the present-day peasant society of China has not been surveyed as an independent theme. This book presents an effort to look into issues relating to the allocation of income, opportunities and assets in a village society; and thus, tries to shed light on the agent and mechanism of resource distribution in the post-reform era."--From publisher's website.

Contents:

Research issues : resource distribution in post-reform rural China

A sketch of the fieldwork villages

Marriage transaction and marriage forms : implications for resource distribution

Household division and provision for the elderly

Kinship relations and resource flows

Network of social relationships in resource distribution

Resource distribution : the state, local government and peasants

Involvement of peasants in the markets and resource distribution

Conclusion : resource distribution and social practice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-269) and index.

ISBN:

9789629963156

9629963159

OCLC:

145456058