Transforming Rural China

Guy M. Robinson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

370 Seiten

2024
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80392-857-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	08.02.2024
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80392-857-3 / 1803928573
ISBN-13	978-1-80392-857-9 / 9781803928579
Zustand	Neuware