This book is about village governance in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on government archives from Huailu county, Hebei province, it explores local practices and official systems of social control, land taxation, and "self government" at the village level. Its analysis of peasant behaviors bridges the gap between the rational choice and...(展开全部)

This book is about village governance in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on government archives from Huailu county, Hebei province, it explores local practices and official systems of social control, land taxation, and "self government" at the village level. Its analysis of peasant behaviors bridges the gap between the rational choice and...(展开全部)

Throughout China the formation of guanxi, or social connections, involves friends, families, colleagues, and acquaintances in complex networks of social support and sentimental attachment. Focusing on this process in one rural north China village, Fengjia, Andrew Kipnis shows what guanxi production reveals about the evolution of village political economy, kinship and gender, an...(展开全部)

Xiaobo Lü , University of California, Berkeley Changdong Zhang , Peking University, Beijing

赵树凯，1959年11月生，山东莱西人。文学学士（山东大学），法学硕士（中央党校），法学博士（中国人民大学）。研究员，国务院颁发政府特殊津贴专家。中共中央政治局第三十六次集体学习主讲人（2006年11月）。现任国务院发展研究中心信息中心主任。 1982年8月起在中共中央书记处农村政策研究室（国务院农村发展研究中心）工作，任秘书、助理研究员。1990年8月起在国务院发展研究中心工作，任助理研究员、副研究员、研究员，国务院发展研究中心农村部组织研究室主任、中共中央文献编辑委员会《万里文选》编辑组编辑、河北省涿鹿县委副书记、中国发展研究基金会副秘书长、国务院发展研究中心信息中心主任，[1] 兼任中国农村劳动力资源开发研究会秘书长。曾任世界银行和英国国际发展部中国农村发展项目顾问，联合国开发计划署中国农村发展项目顾问，亚洲基金会基层治理项目顾问。1995年获...(展开全部)

赵树凯，1959年11月生，山东莱西人。文学学士（山东大学），法学硕士（中央党校），法学博士（中国人民大学）。研究员，国务院颁发政府特殊津贴专家。中共中央政治局第三十六次集体学习主讲人（2006年11月）。现任国务院发展研究中心信息中心主任。 1982年8月起在中共中央书记处农村政策研究室（国务院农村发展研究中心）工作，任秘书、助理研究员。1990年8月起在国务院发展研究中心工作，任助理研究员、副研究员、研究员，国务院发展研究中心农村部组织研究室主任、中共中央文献编辑委员会《万里文选》编辑组编辑、河北省涿鹿县委副书记、中国发展研究基金会副秘书长、国务院发展研究中心信息中心主任，[1] 兼任中国农村劳动力资源开发研究会秘书长。曾任世界银行和英国国际发展部中国农村发展项目顾问，联合国开发计划署中国农村发展项目顾问，亚洲基金会基层治理项目顾问。1995年获...(展开全部)

Until recently, few villagers of rural North China ventured far from their homes. Their intensely local view of the world included knowledge of the immanent sacred realm, which derived from stories of divine revelations, cures, and miracles that circulated among neighboring villages. These stories gave direction to private devotion and served as a source of expert information o...(展开全部)

This book is about the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Temple festivals, with their giant processions, elaborate rituals, and operas, were the most important influence on the symbolic universe of ordinary villagers and demonstrate their remarkable capacity for religious and artistic creation. The great festivals described...(展开全部)

Until recently, few villagers of rural North China ventured far from their homes. Their intensely local view of the world included knowledge of the immanent sacred realm, which derived from stories of divine revelations, cures, and miracles that circulated among neighboring villages. These stories gave direction to private devotion and served as a source of expert information o...(展开全部)

This book is about the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Temple festivals, with their giant processions, elaborate rituals, and operas, were the most important influence on the symbolic universe of ordinary villagers and demonstrate their remarkable capacity for religious and artistic creation. The great festivals described...(展开全部)