China's rural land politics: Bureaucratic absorption and the muting of rightful resistance

China Quarterly

Volumn 219, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 649-669

  Chuang, Julia ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hukou; Land rights; New socialist countryside campaign; Rightful resistance; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; CITIZENSHIP; LAND RIGHTS; LAND USE; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; RURAL POLITICS; URBANIZATION; WAGE;

CHINA; SICHUAN;

EID: 84914178556     PISSN: 03057410     EISSN: 14682648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S030574101400068X     Document Type: Article

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