
Discontented Miracle : Growth, Conflict, And Institutional Adaptations In China.
Title:
Discontented Miracle : Growth, Conflict, And Institutional Adaptations In China.
Author:
Yang, by Dali L.
ISBN:
9789812770660
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (322 pages)
Series:
Series on Contemporary China, v. 10
Contents:
Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Cornering the Market: State Strategies for Controlling China's Commercial Media Ashley Esarey -- INTRODUCTION -- LOCALIZING MEDIA MANAGEMENT POWERS IN THE 1980s -- Decentralization -- The Rise, Decline, and Proliferation of Media -- "CORPORATIZING" THE STATE-OWNED MEDIA -- EVALUATING COMMERCIALIZATION -- THE RISE OF PRINT MEDIA GROUPS: TWO CASES -- Guangzhou Daily -- Southern Daily -- BROADCAST MEDIA GROUPS: HUNAN MEDIA GROUP AND SHANGHAI MEDIA GROUP -- CASE STUDY: THE 2003 SARS EPIDEMIC -- Damage Control -- The Government Response to the Crisis -- Case Summary -- CONCLUSION -- 2. Brewing Tensions while Maintaining Stabilities: The Dual Role of the Hukou System in Contemporary China Fei-Ling Wang -- THE HUKOU SYSTEM -- THE HUKOU SYSTEM IN THE 2000s: A SKETCH -- Functions of the System -- CHANGES, REFORMS, AND IMPROVEMENTS -- Managing the System -- "Deep Reform" -- THE USEFULNESS OF THE HUKOU SYSTEM: GROWTH AND STABILITY -- THE NEGATIVES: BREWING PROBLEMS AND TENSIONS -- Promoting Inequalities -- A COUNTRY OF MANY LAYERS AND DIFFERENT SOCIETIES -- CONCLUSION: HARD QUESTIONS AND TOUGH CHOICES -- 3. Resources and Strategies: Conflicts and Their Consequences in the Chinese Real Estate Market Tianfu Wang and Bobai Li -- INTRODUCTION -- HOUSING DISTRIBUTION AND COMMERCIALIZATION -- FAST GROWTH OF THE REAL ESTATE MARKET -- CONFLICTS BETWEEN HOME BUYERS AND DEVELOPERS -- Unequal Resources -- Strategic Moves -- The Role of the Local Government -- CONSEQUENCES OF CONFLICTS -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- 4. Multifaceted State and Fragmented Society: Dynamics of Environmental Movement in China Yanfei Sun and Dingxin Zhao -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA'S ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT19 -- SAVING THE SNUB-NOSED MONKEY AND THE TIBETAN ANTELOPE -- CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE NUJIANG DAM PROJECT -- DISCUSSION -- ABBREVIATION LIST:.
5. Food Safety and the Development of Regulatory Institutions in China Waikeung Tam and Dali L. Yang -- THE MILK POWDER SCANDAL AND THE GROWING CONCERN OVER FOOD SAFETY -- THE EVOLVING ARCHITECTURE OF FOOD SAFETY REGULATION -- Continuing Fragmentation of Regulatory Authority -- THE REVENUE IMPERATIVE -- Money Over Safety -- Bureaucratic Competition and Corruption -- The Rural vs. Urban Regulatory Divide -- THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN SOCIOECONOMIC REGULATION -- Policy Conflict Between Food Safety and Employment Creation -- CRISIS AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT -- CONCLUSIONS -- 6. Poverty Reduction, Decentralization, and Local Governance in China Ran Tao and Mingxing Liu -- INTRODUCTION -- SPATIAL INEQUALITY AND POVERTY DISTRIBUTION IN CHINA -- MAJOR PUBLIC POLICY RESPONSES -- Poverty Alleviation Strategy -- Designation of Poverty County and Fund Allocation -- Poverty Alleviation Programs -- Subsidized Loan Program -- Public Works Program (Food for Work) -- Government Budgetary Grants -- Other Anti-poverty Programs and Rural Social Security -- DECENTRALIZATION, LOCAL GOVERNANCE, AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION -- Fiscal Decentralization, Un(der)-funded Mandates, and Poverty Alleviation -- Local Governance and Poverty Alleviation -- CONCLUSIONS -- 7. Grain for Green or Grain for Gain: An Empirical Evaluation of the Sloping Land Conversion Program in China Jintao Xu and Ran Tao -- PROGRAM OPERATION AND COST-EFFECTIVENESS -- Program Operation -- Program Cost-Effectiveness -- POLICY BACKGROUND AND LOGIC OF POLICY EVOLUTION -- Failure in State Grain Policy and Central Government Motivation -- Simplified Compensation Standards, Fast Expansion, and Local Governance -- Grain Market Turnaround and Radical Program Adjustment -- ISSUES IN PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPACT ON PARTICIPANT INCOME -- Farmers' Autonomy in Program Implementation.
Lack of Administrative and Financial Resources in Program Implementation -- Low Survival Rates in Afforestation -- SLCP Planning -- Program Impact on Participant Income -- Income Risks and Grain Security for Program Participants -- CONCLUSION -- 8. Elections, Governance, and Accountability in Rural China Fubing Su and Dali L. Yang -- INTRODUCTION -- VILLAGE SELF-GOVERNANCE AND ELECTIONS IN CHINA -- DEMOCRACY, ELECTION, AND GOOD GOVERNANCE -- From Election to Governance -- From Theory to General Principles -- NON-ELECTORAL INSTITUTIONS AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN RURAL CHINA -- Tax-for-Fee Reforms and the Abolishment of the Agricultural Tax -- Accounting and Auditing Reforms -- Transparency and Cunwu Gongkai -- PARTICIPATORY DECISION MAKING -- CONCLUSION: IMPROVING GOVERNANCE IN RURAL CHINA -- Index -- About the Contributors -- About the Editor.
Abstract:
China has been enjoying stellar economic growth for more than a quarter of a century. Yet the rapid growth amid market-oriented reforms has not been an unalloyed blessing. The "China Miracle" has been accompanied by soaring income inequality and rising social tensions, over-taxing China's resource base and contributing to an environmental crisis. Despite substantial improvement in the standard of living and other social indicators, China's leaders have, in the aftermath of the Tiananmen crackdown, steadfastly held back the opening up of the political system. In this volume, contributors from the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology examine how existing institutions, broadly defined, might have exacerbated tensions in China's evolving economy, society and polity as well as how institutional developments have been introduced to deal with existing or emerging conflicts and tensions.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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