China’s Rural–Urban Inequality in the Countryside

This book approaches the issue of rural-urban inequality through fieldwork conducted in a specific township (Zuogang) in Qinggang County, part of Heilongjiang Province in northeastern China. Presenting painstaking fieldwork in a single location, it successfully illuminates fundamental aspects of the reality and the complexity of rural-urban inequality that cannot be found in macro-level studies, most of which are prepared by economists. The book offers a unique combination of rigorous economic analysis with insightful social and anthropological analysis, as well as revealing interviews with local government officials. This approach provides a rich tapestry of rural perceptions of rural-urban inequality. With in-depth analysis and empirical evidence on questions concerning the development and root causes of urban-rural disparities, the book significantly enriches our understanding of the widely discussed issue of rural-urban income inequality, but from the unique perspective of rural China.

• | Author: Yan Gao, Shailaja Fennell
• | Publisher: Springer
• | Publication Date: Mar 23, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 181 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 9811082723
• | ISBN-13: 9789811082726