Rural Transformations and Development – China in Context

Edited by Norman Long, Professor Emeritus, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, Adjunct Professor, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China and Honorary Fellow, White Rose East Asia Centre, University of Leeds, UK, Ye Jingzhong, Professor of Development Studies and Deputy Dean, College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China and Wang Yihuan, Professor of Development Studies, College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

‘This book is commended to rural development specialists, rural sociologists and anthropologists. These groups cover both, academics and practitioners who are interested in agrarian and development issues in China in particular and the world more generally.’

• Contents:PrefaceIntroductionNorman LongPART I: AGRARIAN DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION1. Histories of Development, Predicaments of Modernity: Thinking About Globalization from Some Critical Development Studies PerspectivesArturo Escobar2. Peasants, Territorial Cooperatives and the Agrarian QuestionJan Douwe van der Ploeg3. Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change: Bringing Class Back inHenry Bernstein4. Value, Gender and Capital: Frameworks of Calculation in Micro-Financial PracticesMagdalena VillarrealPART II: ENCOUNTERING THE STATE: PEASANT LIVELIHOOD ISSUES5. Building Livelihoods: How Chinese Peasants Deal with State Regulation of Opportunity and RiskFlemming Christiansen6. Land to the Tiller: The Complexities of Land Ownership and Use in aNorth China VillageZhao XudongPART III: URBANIZATION OF THE COUNTRYSIDE AND MIGRATION DILEMMAS7. Urbanization, Decentralization and the Reorganization of Rural LifeBryan Roberts8. Rural Urbanization in Phoenix Village: Revisiting a Village in Guangdong ProvinceZhou Daming with Huang Xueliang 9. Growing Up and Growing Old in Rural Mexico and China: Care-giving for the Young and the Elderly at the Family–State InterfaceGail Mummert10. Rural–Urban Migration and the Plight of ‘Left-behind Children’in Mid-west ChinaYe Jingzhong, Wang Yihuan and Zhang KeyunPART IV: POLITICS OF POLICY AND PARTICIPATION 11. State Policy Intervention in an Era of Civic ParticipationAlberto Arce12. Stalemate of Participation: Participatory Village Development Planning for Poverty Alleviation in ChinaLi Xiaoyun and Liu Xiaoqian13. How Local Politics Shape Intervention Practices in the Xiaolongshan Forest Region of Gansu, NW ChinaLiu Jinlong14. ‘Accountability’ in Contemporary Rural China: Yu Lu Village Case StudySolange Guo ChatelardIndex