… of state-society relations in rural China, it is also necessary for understanding how local
government works. As we will see in later chapters, patronage networks … and political networks. …

… views through their network’s formal structural setup or informal personal ties (Lukes, 1974).
In the case of recruited rural cadres, the construction of networks across administrative tiers …

… as something of a lacuna in China studies. In this article, taking a county in central China’s
rural heartland as my case study, I examine how the local state functions at the township level…

… Based on social network analysis (SNA), this article analyzes the social network structures
… in different stages of rural development in Yanhe village, Hubei Province, China. The results …

… larger process of democratization of China? This paper will try … in rural China was promoted
by the Chinese state to cope … them out of the state-run distribution network and sold them in …

… In the fourth section, we construct an actor-network account of the rural restructuring
program. The implication of policies for reshaping local actors’ behaviors and guarding …

… : Party networks alleviate asymmetric information problems, which hamper rural taxation
around the world, but party networks are sustained by patronage and therefore jeopardize state …

… rural China even though new policies have in fact reduced the entrenched biases against rural
… there are positive changes noticed in the nature of social networks among rural residents. …

… life in rural China has changed in response to the development of the network economy.
The … of e-commerce and network technology has changed the common values held towards …

… institutions and development investments in rural China collected by the authors in 2003. …
activities includes a wide range of activities in the rural China (Table 9). According to …