Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 282 pages) : illustrations. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Cambridge modern China series
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Cambridge modern China series.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-270) and index. |
Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Journals, Newspapers, Translation Services, and Abbreviations; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; 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; Bibliography; Index. |
Summary |
Provides the first, in-depth English study of the problem of aggressive taxation by local governments in China and explains how this has played a large role in the development gap between urban and rural areas and in the disaffection of a large proportion of the population in rural China. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Taxation -- China.
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Taxation. |
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China. |
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Tax incidence -- China.
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Tax incidence. |
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China -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Lü, Xiaobo, 1959-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Bernstein, Thomas P. Taxation without representation in contemporary rural China. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521813182 (DLC) 2002025679 (OCoLC)49415813 |
ISBN |
9780511064722 (electronic book) |
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0511064721 (electronic book) |
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0511073186 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511073182 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511509971 |
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0511509979 |
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0521813182 |
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9780521813181 |
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