On Rural Society and Village Governance in Contemporary China

Alexander F. Day, Ph.D. UCSC (2007), is Associate Professor of History and chair of Asian Studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He is author of The Peasant in Postsocialist China: History, Politics, and Capitalism (Cambridge, 2013) and articles on rural history and politics as well as capitalist agrarian change.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Capitalist Agrarian Change and Rural SocietyAlexander F. Day1 On the Involution of Rural Governance: a Study of K Town in HenanHe Xuefeng (贺雪峰)Translated by Shayan Momin2 The Multilayered Instrumental Mode of Association in Modern Rural China’s Social IntegrationBased on Field Research from Qiao VillageTan Tongxue (谭同学)Translated by Heather Mowbray3 Organizational Intervention or Individually-Led TransferResearch on the Effects of Peasant Land-Management Rights and Transfer Behavior—Research Based on 1,025 Rural Household Transfers’ Rent Price and Degree of SatisfactionFu Zhenqi (付振奇) and Chen Shuyun (陈淑云)Translated by Kristopher W. Pickett4 Reflections on a Decade in the New Rural Reconstruction Movement: the Case of KaifengHe Huili (何慧丽), Cheng Xiaorui (程晓蕊) and Zong Shifa (宗世法)Translated by Matthew A. Hale5 Paths of Lineage Group Participation in Village PoliticsJin Taijun (金太军) and Wang Junyang (王军洋)Translated by Matthew A. Hale and Phil A. Neel6 Rural Marketization and the Rise of the Middle Class: a Survey of Chetou Township in Southern Jiangxi ProvinceChen Baifeng (陈柏峰)Translated by Heather Mowbray7 Capital Goes Down to the Countryside: Hidden Wage Relations and Capitalist Accumulation in AgricultureChen Yiyuan (陈义媛)Translated by Matthew A. Hale8 Peasant Mobility and Social Stratification in the Jianghan Plain: 1981–2010—An Investigation of Shuguang Village in Hebei ProvinceLin Huihuang (林辉煌)Translated by Kristopher W. Pickett9 The “Middleman + Peasant” Model and Semi-ProletarianizationWu Guanghan (武广汉)Translated by Matthew A. Hale10 From Rights Protection to Turning a Profit: a Logical Framework for Peasants’ Changing Protest ActionsTian Xianhong (田先红)Translated by Heather Mowbray11 Rural Administrative Power and Classificatory Governance: a Paradigm Shift in Peasant Petition ResearchShen Duanfeng (申端锋)Translated by Kristopher W. Pickett12 Reestablishing Petitioning Politics: Overcoming the State’s Petitioning DilemmaLiu Zhengqiang (刘正强)Translated by Emily Hrivnak CiprianiIndex