At the turn of the millennium, the disparities between rural and urban livelihoods,
underdevelopment and administrative shortcomings in the Chinese countryside were …

In March 2006, China's National People's Congress officially promulgated the central
government's intention to “build a new socialist countryside”, a new policy initiative and …

Based on a treasure trove of information collected through fieldwork interviews and
painstaking documentary research through the Chinese and Western language presses, this …

As China strives to achieve nothing less than a" harmonious society"—despite the
pronounced and institutionalized class structure that divides rural Chinese from urban …

Since the mid-2000s, the Chinese government has promoted village modernization under
the banner of “building a new socialist countryside.” To explain the origins and outcomes of …

The economic reform policies of the past five years have brought far-reaching changes
throughout the Chinese country-side. However, contrary to conventional models of the policy …

Over the last decade, a large part of the Chinese countryside has experienced a 'hollowing
out'process in economy and state administration, as rapid urbanisation and development …

In 2006, the Chinese central government abolished the agricultural tax. This came after
several years of intense focus on the growing rural crisis, sparking a new debate on the …

Building a New Socialist Countryside (shehuizhuyi xin nongcun jianshe, hereafter BNSC) is
the official headline for a comprehensive development scheme for rural China. Since 2005 …

The broad aim of this article is to analyse the institutions of China's rural local governments
in their own right, and thus further our understanding of the political and social mechanisms …