Power, entitlement and social practice
Subtitle: resource distribution in North China villages
By: Xiyi Huang.
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Hong Kong
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9789629963156
Subjects: Power (Social sciences) -- China; Patrilineal kinship -- China; Social networks -- China; Kinship -- China; China -- Rural conditions
Description: "Rapid economic and social transformation in rural China has aroused enormous scholarly interest at home and abroad. However, a systematic study of this new mode of resource distribution is to date still underdeveloped; and the complexity of resource allocation in the present-day peasant society of China has not been surveyed as an independent theme. This book presents an effort to look into issues relating to the allocation of income, opportunities and assets in a village society; and thus, tries to shed light on the agent and mechanism of resource distribution in the post-reform era."--From publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: Research issues : resource distribution in post-reform rural China; title: A sketch of the fieldwork villages; title: Marriage transaction and marriage forms : implications for resource distribution; title: Household division and provision for the elderly; title: Kinship relations and resource flows; title: Network of social relationships in resource distribution; title: Resource distribution : the state, local government and peasants; title: Involvement of peasants in the markets and resource distribution; title: Conclusion : resource distribution and social practice.