On the social and political effects of opening in rural China

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. Vil...

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Main Authors: CHENG, Housi, ZHANG, Qian Forrest, John A. DONALDSON
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-31662018-02-28T04:03:06Z On the social and political effects of opening in rural China CHENG, Housi ZHANG, Qian Forrest John A. DONALDSON, 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. 2015-12-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1909 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3166/viewcontent/CCPS1_3__Cheng_Zhang_Donaldson.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University China rural development marketization Agribusiness Asian Studies Political Science Rural Sociology
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
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country Singapore
Singapore
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topic China
rural development
marketization
Agribusiness
Asian Studies
Political Science
Rural Sociology
spellingShingle China
rural development
marketization
Agribusiness
Asian Studies
Political Science
Rural Sociology
CHENG, Housi
ZHANG, Qian Forrest
John A. DONALDSON,
On the social and political effects of opening in rural China
description 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.
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author CHENG, Housi
ZHANG, Qian Forrest
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title On the social and political effects of opening in rural China
title_short On the social and political effects of opening in rural China
title_full On the social and political effects of opening in rural China
title_fullStr On the social and political effects of opening in rural China
title_full_unstemmed On the social and political effects of opening in rural China
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publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2015
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1909
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3166/viewcontent/CCPS1_3__Cheng_Zhang_Donaldson.pdf
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