State and peasant in contemporary China : the political economy of village government / Jean C. Oi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oi, Jean C., Author.

Series:

Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley

Center for Chinese Studies, Publications ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communes (China).

Peasants--Government policy--China.

Peasants.

Elite (Social sciences)--China.

Elite (Social sciences).

Local government--China.

Local government.

Collective farms--China.

Collective farms.

Grain trade--Government policy--China.

Grain trade.

Communism--China.

Communism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1989]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a study of peasant-state relations and village politics as they have evolved in response to the state's attempts to control the division of the harvest and extract the state-defined surplus. To provide the reader with a clearer sense of the evolution of peasant-state relations over almost a forty-year period and to highlight the dramatic changes that have taken place since 1978,1 have divided my analysis into two parts: Chapters 2 through 7 are on Maoist China, and chapters 8 and 9 are on post-Mao China. The first part examines the state's grain policies and patterns of local politics that emerged during the highly collectivized Maoist period, when the state closed free grain markets and established the system of unified purchase and sales (tonggou tongxiao). The second part describes the new methods for the production and division of the harvest after 1978, when the government decollectivized agriculture and abolished its unified procurement program.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations of Newspapers and Journals Cited

Note on Measures and Transliteration

Chapter 1. Peasant Politics in a Communist Economy: An Introduction

Chapter 2. Dividing the Harvest

Chapter 3. The Struggle over the Surplus

Chapter 4. Local Grain Reserves as a State Strategy, 1956-1978

Chapter 5. Bureaucratic Strategies of Control

Chapter 6. Evading Controls: Team Leader Strategies

Chapter 7. A Clientelist System: Collectivized Agriculture and Cadre Power

Chapter 8. A New State Strategy: Prices, Contracts, and Free Markets

Chapter 9. The Evolution of a Clientelist System: The Household Economy and Cadre Power

Chapter 10. State and Peasant in China: Concluding Reflections

Appendix A. Research and Documentation

Appendix B. List of Interviewees

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612356087

9780520911895

052091189X

9781282356085

1282356089

9780585131399

0585131392

OCLC:

43476681