Chinese Village, Global Market

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. “Becoming Global”: Yantian Village in Context

   1. “Becoming Global”: Yantian Village in Context

      • Tony Saich, Biliang Hu

      Pages 1-25

3. Economic Management and Economic Organization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-28

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   2. “Cleaning Their Feet”: The Decline of an Agricultural Village

      • Tony Saich, Biliang Hu

      Pages 29-45

   3. “Building Nests to Attract Phoenixes”: Lineage, Market, and the Rise of a Global Manufacturing Base

      • Tony Saich, Biliang Hu

      Pages 47-63

   4. “New Wine, New Bottles”: The Emergence of a New-Style Village Collective

      • Tony Saich, Biliang Hu

      Pages 65-89

   5. “From Tractors to Automobiles”: Household Economic Management

      • Tony Saich, Biliang Hu

      Pages 91-102

4. Managing the Provision of Public Goods

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-107

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   2. “From Public Provision to a Diversified Network”: Education Services

      • Tony Saich, Biliang Hu

      Pages 109-127

   3. “One Village, Different Worlds”: Healthcare Provision in Yantian

      • Tony Saich, Biliang Hu

      Pages 129-148

   4. “Dengs’ Village”: Governance

      • Tony Saich, Biliang Hu

      Pages 149-177

   5. Yantian: A Model in Transition

      • Tony Saich, Biliang Hu

      Pages 179-189

5. Back Matter

   Pages 191-215

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The story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation, this book shows how outcomes are shaped by a number of factors such as path dependence, social structures, economic resources and local entrepreneurship.

• development
• education
• organization
• Rural Development
• service
• transformation
• transition
• village
• landscape/regional and urban planning

"In the early 1960s, starving refugees from Dongguan County in southern Guangdong were risking their lives to escape to nearby Hong Kong. In the three decades since 1980 Yantian, a Guangdong village, grew from a small agricultural brigade to a thriving modern community with 80,000 people producing goods for the world. Tony Saich and Biliang Hu explain how the economy, society, and governing structures have developed during the changes." Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University

"Chinese Village, Global Market: New Collectives and Rural Development is a fascinating study of the transformation of a rural village into one of China's major industrial and export centers. The innovation that made this transformation possible occurred through the interaction of local leadership with both the central government and the globalizing world economy. The policies of the central government that facilitated this transformation are well known. Far less well known is how so many of the initiatives actually originated with local people, initiatives that affected not only the economy, but also how society is governed at the local level and how public goods from education to health care are provided." Dwight H. Perkins, Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University

Author Tony Saich: Tony Saich is the Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School, USA. Author Biliang Hu: Biliang Hu is a professor of Economics at Beijing Normal University and vice dean of the university s School of Economics and Resource Management.

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