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China Along the Yellow River: Reflections on Rural Society

Cao Jinqing, 2000

Through household budgets, village disputes, collective enterprises and flood recovery, Cao Jinqing examines how rural people and local officials faced the promises and costs of rapid change in Henan.

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11 parts, about 31 minutes to read.

Why read it

  • Follows a field researcher from household budgets to township offices to test how rural policies worked in practice
  • Shows how farmers and officials faced linked pressures from fees, public services, flood recovery and uncertain incomes
  • Explores the author's case for farmer led cooperation and clearer local accountability through concrete village encounters

Who it is for

  • Readers curious about rural China and social change
  • Students of field research and local government
  • People studying farmer cooperation and public finance

What the summary covers

  1. Entering the Villages2 min
  2. Households and Village Life4 min
  3. Who Can Act Together?2 min
  4. The Capable Leader3 min
  5. The Zhuxian Incident2 min
  6. Returning With Harder Questions4 min
  7. What One Family Paid2 min
  8. Collective Wealth and Administrative Accounts3 min
  9. A River's Flood and the People at Work2 min
  10. Limits on What Could Be Heard4 min
  11. Questions from the Journey3 min

Recommended by

  • Lü DewenRural governance scholar
  • Sun XinruJournalism professor at Yunnan University

About the author

  • Cao JinqingSociology professor at East China University of Science and Technology
    • 1978年至1982年就读于复旦大学哲学系。
    • 在华东理工大学社会与公共管理学院任教授、博士生导师。
    • 研究社会学理论和城乡社会学。
    • 曾赴河南乡村开展田野调查，并据此写成《黄河边的中国》。

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