Village Governance and Clan: A Survey and Study of Nine Villages

Author: Shanghai Bookstore
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Publishing Date: 2001-12-01
Features: This book is a project of the National Social Science "Nineth Five-Year Plan." Through detailed investigations and analyses of regional profiles, clan status, and village governance activities in nine village organizations in Jiangxi and Anhui provinces, it authentically reveals the historical and continuous relationship between clan activities in the surveyed areas, the role of elites and farmers in the process of village governance, and the interactive dynamics between contemporary village governance activities and traditional clan consciousness. The book also proposes empirical recommendations on how to address clan activities in current rural governance and how to advance the modernization process of grassroots democracy in rural China. The content is thorough and, making it a rare and significant work in the recent "clan fever" phenomenon.