Chinese Village, Global Market New Collectives and Rural Development [Hardcover]

The story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation, this book shows how outcomes are shaped by a number of factors such as path dependence, social structures, economic resources and local entrepreneurship.Becoming Global': Yantian Village in Context PART I: ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION 'Cleaning Their Feet': The Decline of an Agricultural Village 'Building Nests to Attract Phoenixes': Lineage, Market, and the Rise of a Global Manufacturing Base 'New Wine, New Bottles': The Emergence of a New Style Village Collective From Tractors to Automobiles : Household Economic Management PART II: MANAGING THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC GOODS 'From Public Provision to a Diversified Network': Education Services 'One Village, Different Worlds': Healthcare Provision in Yantian 'Dengs' Village': Governance Yantian: A Model in Transition

In the early 1960s, starving refugees from Dongguan County in southern Guangdong were risking their lives to escape to nearby Hong Kong. In the three decades since 1980 Yantian, a Guangdong village, grew from a small agricultural brigade to a thriving modern community with 80,000 people producing goods for the world. Tony Saich and Biliang Hu explain how the economy, society, and governing structures have developed during the changes. Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University

Chinese Village, Global Market: New Collectives and Rural Development is a fascinating study of the transformation of a rural village into one of China's major industrial and export centers. The innovation that made this transformation possible occurred through the interaction of local leadership with both the central government and the globalizing world economy. The policies of the central government that facilitated this transformation are well known. Far less well known is how so many of the initiatives actually originated with local people, initiativlã5