Local Elites in Post-Mao China

Yingjie Guo is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. His recent publications include Unequal China: The Political Economy and Cultural Politics (with Wanning Sun, Routledge 2013) and Handbook of Class and Stratification in the People’s Republic of China (2015).

• Introduction Local Elites in Post-Mao China, Yingjie Guo 1. Local Cadre Elites and Policy Implementation in Contemporary China, Anna L. Ahlers and Gunter Schubert 2. Inside the Flower Vase: A Report on Private Entrepreneurs’ Political Participation in a County-Level People’s Political Consultative Conference, Minglu Chen 3. Village Elections and the Rise of a New Elite: A Comparative Study on Two North China Villages, Yao Yusheng 4. Why Did the Party Secretary Resign? A Case Study of Village Elites’ Exit from Politics, Feng Junqi 5. Public Goods, Piety and Place: The Legitimation Strategies of Local Business Elites in China, Graeme Smith 6. Urbanizing Collective Land: Localisms, Elites, and the Industrialization of the Pearl River Delta, Luigi Tomba 7. Local Economic Elites and Charitable Giving, Beatriz Carrillo Garcia 8. How a Local Growth Coalition Collapsed: A Case Study of Anti-Confiscation Movement of Private Oil Investors in a Northwestern Chinese County, Peng LU 9. Conclusion China's Local Elites: The Political Economy of Transition, David SG Goodman