A study of how China’s changing economy may leave its rural communities in the dust and launch a political and economic disaster. As the glittering skyline in

How can the poor and weak 'work' a political system to their advantage? Drawing mainly on interviews and surveys in rural China, Kevin O'Brien and Lianjiang Li

Though China's economy is projected to become the world's largest within the next twenty years, industrial pollution threatens both the health of the country's

"A distinctive and important contribution."—Thomas P. Bernstein, author of Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages

This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read and debated for what it reveals about China's rural dynamics as well as the nature of state po