Litigating economic disputes in rural China

China Review

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 97-121

  Mingming, Shen ^a,b   Yuhua, Wang ^c  

^a Department of Political Science ^*

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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29. The actual question reads: "Since you have not had such an experience, let's use a hypothetical case to understand your views. To help a township business through some financial difficulties, a township government borrows RMB 100,000 from villager Wang Lin. The agreement lays down that this amount should be repaid in two years. But two years go by, and the amount has still not been repaid. If you were Wang Lin, what would you do? Would you take action to settle the dispute, or would you not do anything?"
30. We compiled several items of the choice set into "Other modes" here. They are: directly negotiate with the other party; turn to the deputies of the National People's Congress; report to the news media; participate in a sit-in or a demonstration; use violence, etc.
31. In the questionnaire we asked: "Have you ever signed any financial contracts, such as contracts concerning labour, loans, production and marketing, property purchase, investment or rent?"
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