Titlebook: Governance, Social Organisation and Reform in Rural China; Case Studies from An Hongguang He Book 2015 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and Th

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Introduction,ransformation. My own village of Xiaogang is a peripheral but historically important village in Central Eastern China. On 20 February 1978, when the Chinese countryside was still under the system of collectivisation, 18 villagers secretly signed a contract to decollectivise the land and contract it

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Land Reform and Its Implications, Hall shows that in 1979, one year after the introduction of the Household Responsibility System (HRS), the average annual income of its residents was 400 yuan, 18 times that of 1978. Also in 1979, the grain yield of the village, which had only 115 people, reached 66,500 kilograms, four times the av

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Collectivisation and Village Reconstruction, teams (MATs), wrote that when the Party Branch and the Peasants’ Association in Changgong Village (his area of study in Shanxi Province) brought the problem of MATs to the table for the first time, nearly all the peasants thought they were a good but impractical idea. The situation was similar in X

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Village Reform and Its Aftermath,hing, they would not rebel, and the traditional social order could be maintained. This, however, was only partially true of Xiaogang. For what reasons and in what ways did the villagers challenge the government’s authority and decollectivise? Put differently, as Perry (1986: 216) argues: ‘Might not

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The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015

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Governance, Social Organisation and Reform in Rural China978-1-137-48469-7Series ISSN 2946-2355 Series E-ISSN 2946-2363

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Book 2015This study focuses upon governance and social organisation within the Chinese village and explores the extent to which farmers have autonomy vis-à-vis their economic and political activities in an attempt to understand the relationship between farmers and the state in a rapidly changing China.