Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
12-2015
Abstract
What are the economic, social and political effects when previously isolated villages are opened to the outside world? Scholars from different traditions expect different sorts of positive or negative affects to occur. Rural China presents an ideal environment to study this question empirically. Villages within rural China are in the process of being opened to the outside world in different forms, such as through being connected by road, the investment of agribusiness, or urbanization. Moreover this opening is being driven and shaped by different actors, including local residents, government and businesses. The different ways and actors that this opening occurs affect the nature of the opening, as well as its impact on the economic, social and political characteristics of the village.
Keywords
China, rural development, marketization
Discipline
Agribusiness | Asian Studies | Political Science | Rural Sociology
Research Areas
Sociology; Political Science
Publication
Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal
Volume
1
Issue
3
First Page
609
Last Page
636
ISSN
2410-9681
Publisher
National Sun Yat-sen University
Citation
CHENG, Housi, ZHANG, Qian Forrest, & John A. DONALDSON, .(2015). On the social and political effects of opening in rural China. Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, 1(3), 609-636.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1909
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https://icaps.nsysu.edu.tw/ezfiles/122/1122/img/2375/CCPS1(3)-Cheng-Zhang-Donaldson.pdf
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