Power, Entitlement and Social Practice: Resource Distribution in North China Village

Xiyi Huang

July, 2007
Cloth, 220 pages,
ISBN: 978-962-996-315-6
The Chinese University Press
$39.00

Rapid economic and social transformation in rural China has aroused enormous scholarly interest at home and abroad. However, a systematic study of this new mode of resource distribution has yet to be written, and the complex nature of resource allocation in the present-day peasant society of China has yet to be surveyed independently. This book looks into issues relating to the allocation of income, opportunities, and assets in a village society, shedding light on the agent and mechanism of resource distribution in the post-reform era.

Related Subjects

• Sociology

About the Author

Xiyi Huang received her Ph.D. from the University of Leeds and currently works as an Asian Studies Librarian in the Leeds University Library. She has published a number of articles on gender, labor migration, kinship, and rural development. Her research interests include poverty alleviation and institutional changes in rural China.

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