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In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 89, S. 224-226
ISSN: 1835-8535
In: Population, space and place, Band 24, Heft 4
ISSN: 1544-8452
AbstractChina has been undergoing a rapid industrialisation and urbanisation process with an ongoing transfer of people and economic resources from rural to urban areas. Labour migration from rural to urban areas has been massive and become a "rite of passage" for rural young people. There is a widespread view that modernisation and the subsequent transformation of peasants, agriculture, and the countryside have undermined agriculture and hollowed out rural communities. However, due to the peculiarity of thehukousystem and the circularity of rural urban migration, the large rural population can all be institutionally regarded asde jurerural stayers. Thede factorural stayers consist of the left‐behind ones and the non‐left‐behind ones. Yet these categories are quite fluid links with migration as people make different decisions at different stage in their life cycle. Motivations for migrating and staying in the countryside are highly complex. Those who migrate often do so because of economic pushes resulting from the commodification of subsistence. Many women who stay behind do so because of structural forces, such as the traditional culture of gender division and economic coercion. The non‐left‐behind people who are not stuck in the countryside are often able to actively pursue alternative rural livelihoods. These rural stayers develop diversified livelihood strategies that involve multiple job holding and make significant contributions to their household livelihoods and to driving rural development. The paper concludes that rural villages are not, as is often supposed, hollowed out, and many rural stayers do so voluntarily.
In: Review of African political economy, Band 48, Heft 168, S. 217-234
ISSN: 1740-1720
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In: Social sciences in China, Band 41, Heft 3, S. 152-172
ISSN: 1940-5952
In: Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities: JARID, Band 28, Heft 4, S. 352-366
ISSN: 1468-3148
BackgroundWelfare for the disabled is becoming an important issue in China and care for people with intellectual disability is challenging because of the inadequacies in formal support and the social service system.Material and MethodBased on ethnographic research in two villages in North China, this paper analyses the dilemmas of family care for people with intellectual disability. The essential data is the ethnographic record of three cases.ResultsRural families strive to provide care through a set of arrangements and bear tremendous stress in the process.ConclusionFamily care for people with intellectual disability in rural China has been increasingly challenged by the forces of labour migration, demographic changes and the ever‐growing processes of commoditization. The role of the state has to be strengthened in welfare provision to balance the weakened family care ethos in transforming societies.
In: Research in rural sociology and development 22
In: Research in rural sociology and development, volume 22
This volume seeks to answer modern questions and concerns regarding peasants, their production techniques, and their links to wider society. In the past, peasants and their seemingly simple production models have been criticized for being unable to fully meet the needs of modern society, especially when it comes to world hunger, food quality, and sustainability. However, often neglected is the myriad of new initiatives that alter the way food is produced and marketed. New ©Ø℗peasant markets©Ø are created everywhere and new products and services abound. This volume argues that these initiatives represent ©Ø℗seeds of transition©Ø; they are the ©Ø℗sprouts©Ø out of which new socio-technical modes for organizing production and marketing emerge ©Ø ©Ø℗sprouts©Ø that, taken together, can be summarized as ©Ø℗₋rural development©Ø. This book critically discusses these new practices and the actors engaged in them. In doing so, it deals with several countries in three different continents (Asia, South America and Europe). It proposes new concepts and approaches for a better understanding of the re-emergence of peasants as indispensable part of modern societies.
In: The Impact of Change in Modern China
This ground-breaking work is the result of research by Plan International China and the China Agricultural University on children who have been left behind in their rural villages when their parents migrate to cities in search of work. When evaluating and studying the huge impact of migration in China understanding the situation of left-behind children offers many valuable lessons
In: Globalizations, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 92-113
ISSN: 1474-774X
In: Routledge contemporary China series 149
In: Research in rural sociology and development volume 22
Since the mid-2000s, rural development and politics in China has entered a new phase that revolves around what the central government calls 'agricultural modernization'. Transforming the once-dominant smallholding, family-based agriculture has become a focal point of the government's programme of rural rejuvenation, where a range of economic changes unleashed by urbanization and industrialization also converge. We argue that in this new context, agrarian change has become the key vantage point from which to study rural China. We review key contributions of the papers in this special issue and highlight their insights on rural differentiation, land politics and rural livelihoods. We discuss how studying the 'Chinese path' of agrarian transition can contribute to ongoing debates on key themes in agrarian studies, including both the agrarian questions of capital and of labour, and how agrarian political economy offers unique perspectives on the overall processes of capitalist development in China.
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In: Journal of contemporary China, Band 23, Heft 87, S. 498-515
ISSN: 1067-0564
Chinese economic and social development in the past three decades has been typically state-led, in which capital and government officials are gradually allied through guanxi-a social psychological network that connects individuals with continued exchanges of favours, emotions and resources. This transforms many traditional characteristics of guanxi and encodes it with new features deeply rooted in institutional settings in contemporary China, which we term as neo-guanxilism. Although 'local state corporatism' has strong explanatory power in analysing the alliance of enterprises and local government, we argue that this type of neo-guanxilism could fill the gap uncovered by local state corporatism, mainly through emphasizing government officials as interdependent actors instead of viewing the local state as a collective, capturing not only the developmental but also the predatory aspects of local governments. (J Contemp China/GIGA)
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