The Transformation of Rural China (Asia and the Pacific) 在線電子書 圖書標籤: 中國研究 海外中國研究 RuralStudies 社會學 當代中國 參考書 農村研究 農村
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這是我看過introduction最短的學術著作啦~我導真是太牛瞭~
評分哈哈哈哈哈有一段關於dazhai system在廣州一個村子讓我在圖書館笑成瞭一個傻逼
評分哈哈哈哈哈有一段關於dazhai system在廣州一個村子讓我在圖書館笑成瞭一個傻逼
評分哈哈哈哈哈有一段關於dazhai system在廣州一個村子讓我在圖書館笑成瞭一個傻逼
評分哈哈哈哈哈有一段關於dazhai system在廣州一個村子讓我在圖書館笑成瞭一個傻逼
Jonathan Unger, a highly regarded China scholar from Australia, has been studying rural China for 3 decades. In the 1970s, when most scholars were prevented from doing true fieldwork in the PRC, Unger and colleagues interviewed recent Hong Kong migrants from a particular village in Guangdong province, and produced the excellent village study "Chen Village" (later updated to include the Deng era). In the 1980s and 1990s, he started making regular extensive trips around the Chinese countryside talking to farmers, rural workers, officials, etc. "The Transformation of Rural China" is a collection of Unger's essays covering this entire span, all updated and with extensive references to other scholars' work.
The first 90 pages of this 250 page book are about the Mao era. There are essays on the state's power at the village level, the rural class structure, ideology and work incentives, and the Cultural Revolution. One point that hasn't been made by many others is that the peasants were not opposed to collective farming per se, what they resented was the lack of economic freedom given the collectives. The state's sometimes irrational restrictions on what the village collectives could do (what to plant, how to plant it, how to divide income among villagers, how to market the output), and the unfairly low prices paid for the village's output all contributed to rising disillusionment with the Maoist rural development model.
The rest of the book is about the reform era. First is an article on the early 1980s decollectivization. Unger's interviews undermine the "voting with feet" explanation offered by the regime and accepted uncritically by most western observers. Decollectivization was mostly a top-down, non-spontaneous, involuntary affair. This is not to say it wasn't welcomed, just that farmers had little to do with it. Most villages seem to have preferred the new decentralized family managed co-op system, yet a minority of villages that preferred to keep the collective farms crumbled under fierce state pressure.
A couple of essays are about the emerging private sector in rural China, including migrant labor, and he assesses the entrepreneurial activities of local governments.
A particularly important essay is the one on poverty in the hinterlands, regions that have gotten much less attention than the dynamic SE coast. Unger shows that a lot of the alleged poverty reduction from the late 1980s into the 1990s was the result of invalid statistics. The government's anti-poverty efforts for these regions in the 1990s have been sincere, but not terribly effective. The crisis in health care and schooling access in these areas is particularly acute, something that wasn't nearly so big a problem in the pre-reform and early reform eras.
One of the observations many western observers might find surprising is that the government--following the advice of western and Chinese economists--has been trying for several years at least, to force the peasants to privatize land. During the 1980s and most of the 1990s, villages periodically redistributed land to maintain equal per capita land distribution in the face of changing household sizes. This arrangement is quite popular, the evidence shows, for it ensures farmers can never lose their land and can have enough food when their household gains members. Yet the government is persistent in applying pressure to forward its forced privatization policy. This will no doubt be cheered by western politicians, the same ones who claim to support "democracy" in China.
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