Organizing Rural China - Rural China Organizing (eBook)

Stig Thøgersen is professor of China studies at Aarhus University. He is the author of A County of Culture – Twentieth century China seen from the village schools of Zouping, Shandong (University of Michigan Press, 2002) and Doing Fieldwork in China (ed. with Maria Heimer, NIAS Press 2006). He has published several articles on social, political and cultural change in rural China in journals such as China Quarterly, China Journal, and Journal of Contemporary China. Besides rural organizations and rural reconstruction his main present research interest is in the life histories of Chinese overseas students. Ane Bislev is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University. She did her PhD on microcredit and social capital in Yunnan and Guizhou and is currently working on a project on the informal credit markets in rural China. She is the author of The Need for Capital: Social Capital and Microcredit in Southwest China (2010).

IntroductionIntroduction, by Ane Bislev and Stig Thøgersen Imagining Rural China: Policies, Discourses, IdealsContinuity and Change in Rural China’s Organization, by Jonathan UngerOrganizing Rural China: Political and Academic Discourses, by Stig ThøgersenGovernment Propaganda and the Organization of Rural China, by Christian GöbelStitching it All Back Up: The Role of Sent-Down Cadres in Rural Community Building?, by Unn Målfrid RolandsenReconstructing Rural China from the Bottom: A Discussion of Some Recent Chinese Experiments, by Xu Yong and Ma HuaGoverning China’s Failed Villages: Between a “Weak State” and a Fragmented Society, by Liu YiqiangOrganizing Rural China: Actors and Local PracticesLife in a Rural Boarding School: Learning to Organize and to Be Organized, by Mette Halskov HansenOrganizing Rural Health Care, by Mikkel BunkenborgLineages and the State: Re-inventing Lineages and Ancestor Ceremonies as Cultural Heritage, by Marina SvenssonNative Place in Cyberspace: The Civic Enagement of an Internet Community, by Pang CuimingEmbedded Microcredit—Creating Village Cohesion on the Basis of Existing Social Networks, by Ane BislevA Value Chain Gone Awry: Implications of the “Tainted Milk Scandal” in 2008 for Political and Social Organization in Rural China, by Jørgen Delman and Yang MinghongReflectionsModern/Rural China: State Institutions and Village Values, by Vivienne Shue