Transforming rural China / Guy M. Robinson (Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Population, School of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia; Senior Departmental Fellow, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, G. M. (Guy M.), author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Economic conditions--2000-.

China.

China--Rural conditions--21st century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2024.

Summary:

"Over the last four decades, China has witnessed dramatic economic growth, transforming into an economic powerhouse with considerable consequences for its rural regions. In this timely book, Guy M. Robinson adeptly navigates the principal elements, key events and significant changes of the transformation of China's countryside. Chapters assess economic, social, and environmental aspects of China's rural transformation, examining the central role of the Chinese Communist Party and government policies in shaping this change. Offering an interdisciplinary perspective, Robinson comprehensively explores the key events in the transition from a rural peasant society to a countryside that is a complex mosaic of 'hollowed' villages, 'desakota' peri-urban fringes, farming landscapes, tourist attractions, new villages, 'left behind' children and elderly, wholesale rural poverty alleviation, and degraded and newly restored ecosystems. This book will prove to be an essential read for academics and students of geopolitics, human geography, environmental studies, economics and finance, and development studies focusing on China. It will also be an invigorating read for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Chinese and Asian studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Preface

1. Approaches to rural transformation

2 peasants no more? Social change in the countryside

3 rural-urban migration and 'hollowed' villages

4 desakota landscapes

5 from collectives to co-operatives

6. Modernising agriculture

7 rural tourism and rediscovering rural heritage

8 towards the ecological civilisation: Conservation and afforestation

9 building the rural future and alleviating rural poverty

10 way out west: Managing China's 'colonial' frontier

11. Whither rural China?

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781803928586 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.