Title: State and peasant in contemporary China :
Authors: Oi, Jean C.
Date: 1989
Publisher: University of California Press,
Physical description: xx, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: J
Contents: Peasant Politics in a Communist Economy: An Introduction -- Dividing the Harvest -- The Struggle over the Surplus -- Local Grain Reserves as a State Strategy, 1956-1978 -- Bureaucratic Strategies of Control -- Evading Controls: Team Leader Strategies -- A Clientelist System: Collectivized Agriculture and Cadre Power -- A New State Strategy: Prices, Contracts, and Free Markets -- The Evolution of a Clientelist System: The Household Economy and Cadre Power -- State and Peasant in China: Concluding Reflections.
Subject headings (LCSH): Collective farms--China.; Communes (China); Communism--China.; Elite (Social sciences)--China.; Grain trade--Government policy--China.; Local government--China.; Peasants--Government policy--China.