Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest ChinaAuthor :
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Published : Monday 30 April 2018
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Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China offers the first comprehensive analysis of how Chinaâ?Ts current system of land ownership has evolved over the past six decades. Based on extended fieldwork in Yunnan Province, the author explores how the three major rural actorsâ?"local governments, village communities, and rural householdsâ?"have contested and negotiated land rights at the grassroots level, thereby transforming the structure of rural land ownership in the Peopleâ?Ts Republic of China. At least two million rural settlements (or â?onatural villagesâ??) are estimated to exist in China today. Formed spontaneously out of settlement choices over extended periods of time, these rural settlements are fundamentally different from the present-day administrative villages imposed by the government from above. Yi Wuâ?Ts historical ethnography sheds light on such â?onatural villagesâ?? and their role in shaping the current land ownership system. Drawing on local land disputes, archival documents, and rich local histories, the author unveils their enduring social identities in both the Maoist and reform eras. She pioneers the concept of â?obounded collectivismâ?? to describe what resulted from struggles between the Chinese state trying to establish collective land ownership, and rural settlements seeking exclusive control over land resources within their traditional borders. A particular contribution of this book is that it provides a nuanced understanding of how and why Chinaâ?Ts rural land ownership is changing in post-Mao China. Yi Wu uses village-level data to show how local governments, rural communities, and rural households compete for use, income, and transfer rights in both agricultural production and the land market. She demonstrates that the current rural land ownership system in China is not a static system imposed by the state from above, but a constantly changing hybrid.
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