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China in transition : poverty, income decomposition and labor allocation of agricultural households in Hebei Province
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ISBN: 1299422489 3653016762 3631633289 Year: 2012 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang,

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In China, inequality in social welfare is of rising political concern. This case study analyzes the determinants of well-being of rural households in Hebei using a secondary panel data set (1986 to 2006). One key question is how well-being was affected by institutional changes in times of societal transition. Based on population grouping, the author analyzes poverty and income development. The study reveals impacts of new possibilities to provide labor outside the own farm on the allocation of households’ labor time and the stability of full- and part-time farming over time. The assessments ground on agricultural household models, microeconomic concepts of labor allocation, and welfare theories. Different methodologies, e.g. inequality decomposition or hazard analysis, are applied.


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The river, the plain, and the state : an environmental drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128
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ISBN: 1316722813 1316724018 1316609693 1316659291 131672641X 1316724611 1107155983 1316725812 1316719219 1316723410 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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On July 19, 1048, the Yellow River breached its banks, drastically changing its course across the Hebei Plain and turning it into a delta where the river sought a path out to the ocean. This dramatic shift of forces in the natural world resulted from political deliberation and hydraulic engineering of the imperial state of the Northern Song Dynasty. It created 80 years of social suffering, economic downturn, political upheaval, and environmental changes, which reshaped the medieval North China Plain and challenged the state. Ling Zhang deftly applies textual analysis, theoretical provocation, and modern scientific data in her gripping analysis of how these momentous events altered China's physical and political landscapes and how its human communities adapted and survived. In so doing, she opens up an exciting new field of research by wedding environmental, political, economic, and social history in her examination of one of North China's most significant environmental changes.

Revolution, resistance, and reform in village China
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ISBN: 1281731420 9786611731427 0300133235 9780300133233 9780300108965 0300108966 9781281731425 6611731423 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Haven [Conn.] Yale University Press

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Drawing on more than a quarter century of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the contested relationship between village and state from the 1960's to the start of the twenty-first century. The authors provide a vivid portrait of how resilient villagers struggle to survive and prosper in the face of state power in two epochs of revolution and reform. Highlighting the importance of intra-rural resistance and rural-urban conflicts to Chinese politics and society in the Great Leap and Cultural Revolution, the authors go on to depict the dynamic changes that have transformed village China in the post-Mao era. This book continues the dramatic story in the authors' prizewinning Chinese Village, Socialist State. Plumbing previously untapped sources, including interviews, archival materials, village records and unpublished memoirs, diaries and letters, the authors capture the struggles, pains and achievements of villagers across three generations of social upheaval.


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Material culture, power, and identity in ancient China
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ISBN: 1108228224 1108229387 1108229611 1316460177 1108229840 1108230997 1108230075 1107134021 1107591457 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In this book, Xiaolong Wu offers a comprehensive and in-depth study of the Zhongshan state during China's Warring States Period (476-221 BCE). Analyzing artefacts, inscriptions, and grandiose funerary structures within a broad archaeological context, he illuminates the connections between power and identity, and the role of material culture in asserting and communicating both. The author brings an interdisciplinary approach to this study. He combines and cross-examines all available categories of evidence, including archaeological, textual, art historical, and epigraphical, enabling innovative interpretations and conclusions that challenge conventional views regarding Zhongshan and ethnicity in ancient China. Wu reveals the complex relationship between material culture, cultural identity, and statecraft intended by the royal patrons. He demonstrates that the Zhongshan king Cuo constructed a hybrid cultural identity, consolidated his power, and aimed to maintain political order at court after his death through the buildings, sculpture, and inscriptions that he commissioned.


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China in one village : The story of one town and the changing world
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ISBN: 9781839765568 1839765569 9781839761775 1839761776 Year: 2021 Publisher: London Verso

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"An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China -- told through the microcosm of one small town. After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the seismic changes in Chinese society, and a village hollowed-out by emigration, neglect, and environmental despoliation. Combining family memoir, literary observation, and social commentary, Liang's by turns moving and shocking account became a bestselling book in China and brought her fame. Across China, many saw in Liang's remarkable and vivid interviews with family members and childhood acquaintances a mirror of their own families, and her observations about the way the greatest rural-to-urban migration of modern times has twisted the country resonated deeply. China in One Village tells the story of contemporary China through one clear-eyed observer, one family, and one village." --

Revolution, resistance, and reform in village China.
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ISBN: 9780300125955 030012595X 0300108966 9780300108965 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Haven Yale university press

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S11/0485 --- S06/0500 --- S04/0431 --- S20/0253 --- China: Social sciences--Rural change --- China: Politics and government--Other modern political movements (e.g. anarchism, Socialism, dissident movements, Beijing Spring, Tian'anmen) --- China: History--Gazetteers: Hebei --- China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--General works: since 1979 --- Communism and agriculture --- Government, Resistance to --- Hebei Sheng (China) --- China --- Rural conditions --- Politics and government --- Communisme et agriculture --- Résistance au gouvernement --- Hebei (Chine) --- Chine --- Rural conditions. --- Conditions rurales --- Politique et gouvernement --- Civil resistance --- Non-resistance to government --- Resistance to government --- Political science --- Political violence --- Insurgency --- Nonviolence --- Revolutions --- Agriculture and communism --- Agriculture --- 河北省 (China) --- Kahoku-shō (China) --- Ho-pei sheng (China) --- Hopeh Province (China) --- Hopeh (China) --- Hebei Province (China) --- He Bei Province (China) --- Ho-pei (China : Province) --- Ho-pei sheng jen min cheng fu (China) --- Hebei (China : Province) --- Zhili Sheng (China) --- Rehe Sheng (China) --- Communism and agriculture - China - Hebei Sheng --- Government, Resistance to - China - Hebei Sheng --- Hebei Sheng (China) - Rural conditions --- China - Rural conditions --- China - Politics and government - 1949 --- -Communism and agriculture --- Political resistance --- Résistance au gouvernement --- Vie rurale --- 1949-...

Building local states : China during the republican and post-Mao eras.
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ISBN: 0674013980 9780674013988 1684173973 9781684173976 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge Harvard university Asia center

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"In both the Nanjing decade of Guomindang rule (1927-37) and the early post-Mao reform era (1980-92), both national and local factors shaped local state building and created variations in local state structures and practices. This book focuses on one key area of the state, taxation and public finance, to trace the processes of local state building in these two eras. Using the records of local tax and finance offices in the Tianjin area and in Guangdong province, the author maps the process by which these county-level offices grew, reached downward and outward, and took on more tasks." "This book highlights variation in local state structures and practices, variation both between localities and between the central and local governments. As the author shows, this variation is important because it results in regional differences in state-society relations and affects the central state's power in terms of the local state's ability to implement the center's as well as its own policies."--BOOK JACKET.

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Finance, Public --- Local government --- Taxation --- History --- S06/0212 --- S06/0225 --- Duties --- Fee system (Taxation) --- Tax policy --- Tax reform --- Taxation, Incidence of --- Taxes --- Revenue --- Local administration --- Township government --- Subnational governments --- Administrative and political divisions --- Decentralization in government --- Public administration --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Public finances --- Currency question --- China: Politics and government--Republic: local and provincial government --- China: Politics and government--People's Republic: local and provincial government: since 1976 --- Guangdong Sheng (China) --- Hebei Sheng (China) --- Tianjin (China) --- Ti︠a︡nʹt︠s︡zinʹ (China) --- Tienchin (China) --- Tʻien-chin (China) --- Tʻien-chin-shih (China) --- Tien-tsin (China) --- Tenshin (China) --- Tientsin (China) --- Ṭiyeng'in (China) --- Tianjin Municipality (China) --- Tʻien-chin shih jen min cheng fu (China) --- Tianjing (China) --- Tianjin Shi (China) --- Tʻien-ching (China) --- Tʻien-ching-shih (China) --- Tiensen (China) --- Tientsin Municipality (China) --- Tiensin (China) --- Ṭientszin (China) --- 天津 (China) --- 河北省 (China) --- Kahoku-shō (China) --- Ho-pei sheng (China) --- Hopeh Province (China) --- Hopeh (China) --- Hebei Province (China) --- He Bei Province (China) --- Ho-pei (China : Province) --- Ho-pei sheng jen min cheng fu (China) --- Hebei (China : Province) --- Zhili Sheng (China) --- Rehe Sheng (China) --- 广东省 (China) --- Kwangtung, China (Province) --- Kuang-tung sheng jen min cheng fu (China) --- Kuang-tung sheng (China) --- Kanton-shō (China) --- Kwangtung (China) --- Kwangtung Province (China) --- Guangdong (China) --- Guangdong Province (China) --- Kuang-tung (China) --- Guang dong (China) --- Guangdong Sheng ren min zheng fu (China) --- 广东省人民政府 (China) --- Politics and government


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Report on Development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province (2013) : Measurement of Carrying Capacity and Countermeasures
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ISBN: 9783662462058 3662462044 9783662462041 3662462052 Year: 2015 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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This book mainly focuses on the status, trends and countermeasures of carrying capacity in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan region. It presents the results a comprehensive survey and systematic research on the carrying capacity of this region and its mega-cities, conducted in the hope of providing decision-making support for the governments of this region. The primary goals are to be able to actively respond to the new challenges of global climate changes and environmental resource constraints; fully practice green development concepts; and actively promote transformation in the development of the population, resources, environment, economics, society and ecology in this region.

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Economics/Management Science. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Development Economics. --- Economic Policy. --- Economics. --- Economic policy. --- Regional economics. --- Economie politique --- Politique économique --- Economie régionale --- Sociology & Social History --- Management --- Business & Economics --- Social Sciences --- Management Theory --- Communities - Urban Groups --- Beijing (China) --- Tianjin (China) --- Hebei Sheng (China) --- Economic conditions. --- Development economics. --- Spatial economics. --- 河北省 (China) --- Kahoku-shō (China) --- Ho-pei sheng (China) --- Hopeh Province (China) --- Hopeh (China) --- Hebei Province (China) --- He Bei Province (China) --- Ho-pei (China : Province) --- Ho-pei sheng jen min cheng fu (China) --- Hebei (China : Province) --- Zhili Sheng (China) --- Rehe Sheng (China) --- Ti︠a︡nʹt︠s︡zinʹ (China) --- Tienchin (China) --- Tʻien-chin (China) --- Tʻien-chin-shih (China) --- Tien-tsin (China) --- Tenshin (China) --- Tientsin (China) --- Ṭiyeng'in (China) --- Tianjin Municipality (China) --- Tʻien-chin shih jen min cheng fu (China) --- Tianjing (China) --- Tianjin Shi (China) --- Tʻien-ching (China) --- Tʻien-ching-shih (China) --- Tiensen (China) --- Tientsin Municipality (China) --- Tiensin (China) --- Ṭientszin (China) --- 天津 (China) --- Beijing Shi (China) --- Begejing (China) --- Begejing Qota (China) --- Bėėzhin (China) --- Бээжин (China) --- Peiping (China) --- Peping (China) --- Pekin (China) --- Pei-ching shih (China) --- Pei-pʻing shih (China) --- Peking (China) --- Pukkyŏng (China) --- Beijing Municipality (China) --- Bei Jing Shi (China) --- Pei-ching (China) --- Pechino (China) --- Pequim (China) --- Peiping Municipal Administrative Area (China) --- Peiping Municipality (China) --- Peking Municipality (China) --- Bījīn (China) --- Dadu (China) --- Daidu (China) --- 北京 (China) --- Beiping Tebieshi zheng fu --- Beiping Shi zheng fu --- Beiping Shi di fang wei chi hui --- Beijing di fang wei chi hui --- Beijing Tebieshi zheng fu --- Beijing Tebieshi gong shu --- Beijing Shi ren min zheng fu --- Beijing Shi ren min wei yuan hui --- Beijing Shi ge ming wei yuan hui --- Economics --- Economic development --- Regional planning --- Regionalism --- Space in economics --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Spatial economics --- Regional economics

Building local states : China during the republican and post-Mao eras
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ISBN: 1684173973 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : Harvard University Asia Center,

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"In both the Nanjing decade of Guomindang rule (1927-37) and the early post-Mao reform era (1980-92), both national and local factors shaped local state building and created variations in local state structures and practices. This book focuses on one key area of the state, taxation and public finance, to trace the processes of local state building in these two eras. Using the records of local tax and finance offices in the Tianjin area and in Guangdong province, the author maps the process by which these county-level offices grew, reached downward and outward, and took on more tasks." "This book highlights variation in local state structures and practices, variation both between localities and between the central and local governments. As the author shows, this variation is important because it results in regional differences in state-society relations and affects the central state's power in terms of the local state's ability to implement the center's as well as its own policies."--BOOK JACKET.

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Taxation. --- Politics and government --- Local government. --- Finance, Public. --- Administration locale --- Impôt --- Finances publiques --- Local government --- Taxation --- Finance, Public --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Public finances --- Currency question --- Duties --- Fee system (Taxation) --- Tax policy --- Tax reform --- Taxation, Incidence of --- Taxes --- Revenue --- Local administration --- Township government --- Subnational governments --- Administrative and political divisions --- Decentralization in government --- Public administration --- Histoire --- History --- China --- China. --- Hebei (Chine) --- Tianjin (Chine) --- Guangdong (Chine : Sheng) --- Hebei Sheng (China) --- Tianjin (China) --- Guangdong Sheng (China) --- 广东省 (China) --- Kwangtung, China (Province) --- Kuang-tung sheng jen min cheng fu (China) --- Kuang-tung sheng (China) --- Kanton-shō (China) --- Kwangtung (China) --- Kwangtung Province (China) --- Guangdong (China) --- Guangdong Province (China) --- Kuang-tung (China) --- Guang dong (China) --- Guangdong Sheng ren min zheng fu (China) --- 广东省人民政府 (China) --- Ti︠a︡nʹt︠s︡zinʹ (China) --- Tienchin (China) --- Tʻien-chin (China) --- Tʻien-chin-shih (China) --- Tien-tsin (China) --- Tenshin (China) --- Tientsin (China) --- Ṭiyeng'in (China) --- Tianjin Municipality (China) --- Tʻien-chin shih jen min cheng fu (China) --- Tianjing (China) --- Tianjin Shi (China) --- Tʻien-ching (China) --- Tʻien-ching-shih (China) --- Tiensen (China) --- Tientsin Municipality (China) --- Tiensin (China) --- Ṭientszin (China) --- 天津 (China) --- 河北省 (China) --- Kahoku-shō (China) --- Ho-pei sheng (China) --- Hopeh Province (China) --- Hopeh (China) --- Hebei Province (China) --- He Bei Province (China) --- Ho-pei (China : Province) --- Ho-pei sheng jen min cheng fu (China) --- Hebei (China : Province) --- Zhili Sheng (China) --- Rehe Sheng (China) --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- Politique et gouvernement

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