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Taxation without representation in contemporary rural China /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Taxation without representation in contemporary rural China // Thomas P. Bernstein, Xiaobo Lü.
Author:	Bernstein, Thomas P.,
other author:	Lü, Xiaobo,
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 282 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Taxation - China. -
Subject:	China -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511509971
ISBN:	9780511509971 (ebook)

Taxation without representation in contemporary rural China /
Bernstein, Thomas P.,

Taxation without representation in contemporary rural China /Thomas P. Bernstein, Xiaobo Lü. - 1 online resource (xviii, 282 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge modern China series. - Cambridge modern China series..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

List of Journals, Newspapers, Translation Services, and Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Peasants and Taxation in Historical Perspective -- 3. Extracting Funds from the Peasants -- 4. Institutional Sources of Informal Tax Burdens -- 5. Burdens and Resistance: Peasant Collective Action -- 6. Containing Burdens: Change and Persistence -- 7. Burden Reduction: Village Democratization and Farmer National Interest Representation -- 8. Conclusions.

The financial burden imposed upon the Chinese farmer by local taxes has become a major source of discontent in the Chinese countryside and a worrisome source of political and social instability for the Chinese government. Bernstein and Lü examine the forms and sources of heavy, informal taxation, and shed light on how peasants defend their interests by adopting strategies of collective resistance (both peaceful and violent). Bernstein and Lü also explain why the central government, while often siding with the peasants, has not been able to solve the burden problem by instituting a sound, reliable financial system in the countryside. While the regime has, to some extent, sought to empower farmers to defend their interests - by informing them about tax rules, expanding the legal system, and instituting village elections, for example, these attempts have not yet generated enough power from 'below' to counter powerful, local official agencies.

ISBN: 9780511509971 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1439808
Taxation
--China.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

714969
China

LC Class. No.: HJ2981 / .B47 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 336.2/00951/091734

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