Social mobility of farmers in social change

Author: Zeng Shaoyang / Tang Xiaoteng
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: This book conducts an analytical study on the status, causes, structural changes, and impacts of rural labor mobility in China from the modern era to the founding of the People's Republic of China, supplemented by empirical investigations and comprehensive analyses of 20 villages in Jiangxi Province. It aims to provide preliminary research and predictions on the relationship between rural labor mobility and agricultural, rural social development in the 21st century. The book indirectly addresses how to balance the relationship between rural modernization and traditional rural society, government policy orientation and public choices, and how rural society should be organized, managed, and structured. This book is part of the National Social Science Fund Project. The "Three Rural" issues are increasingly attracting attention from Chinese people, and this book is based on comprehensive, multi-dimensional empirical research conducted by numerous scholars on rural labor mobility and the socio-economic changes in rural areas across 14 counties and over 20 villages in Jiangxi Province.