The Revival of Private Property and its Limits in Post-Mao China

Preface
List of abbreviations

Chapter 1: Introduction
1.Introduction
2.Discourses, Research sources and methods
3.Theoretical Perspectives
4.The Public-Private Distinction in China: Historical Background

Chapter 2: Property and Property Rights in Historical Context: Late Imperial and Republican China
1.Introduction
2.Understanding Civil ‘Law’ in Qing and Republican China
3.The Socio-economic Conditions of Late Imperial China
4.Fragmentation of the Land Tenure System
5.Conclusion

Chapter 3: Property Law Reform and the Revival of ‘the Private’ in Law in Post-Mao China
1.Introduction
2.The Historical Background to Property Law Reform
3.Debates over Different Proposals of the Property Law
4.Conclusion

Chapter 4: The Transformation of Collective Ownership and Rural Governance
1.Introduction
2.Rural Governance in Traditional China and its Transformation
3.Collectivisation (1949-1978)
4.Decollectivisation
5.Rural Governance in Post-Mao China: the Rise of Neo-Collectivism and Post-Collectivism
6.Conclusion

Chapter 5: The Transformation of State Ownership in Market Reform: Privatisation of the SOEs?
1.Introduction
2.Economic Reforms Stalled Between the Plan and the Market
3.The Central-Local Relationship: ‘Market-thwarting federalism’
4.Conclusion

Chapter 6: Emerging Private Ownership in Urban China: the Property Market
1.Introduction
2.The Emergence of the Rural-Urban Divide and the State Housing Allocation System
3.The Emergence of Urban Property Markets
4.Spatial, Social and Political Transformations
5.Conclusion

Chapter 7: Land Disputes, Conflicts and Resistance
1.Introduction
2.Vulnerable Property Rights: Land Requisition and Forced Eviction
3.Access to Justice
4.Disputes, Conflicts and Resistance in Relation to Land in Post-Mao China
5.Transformation in the Role of Government
6.Conclusion

Chapter 8: Private Property and China’s Future
1.Defining Property in China
2.Political Implications of the Revival of Private Property
3.Private Property and China’s Future

Bibliography
Appendix: Chinese Laws and Regulations Pertaining to Property in Post-Mao China
Glossary of Chinese terms used in the text