Thomas P. Bernstein, Xiaobo Lu, Xiaobo L

Taxation Without Representation in Contemporary Rural China

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides the first, in-depth English study of the tax burden problems farmers face in China.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780521082891
• ISBN-10: 0521082897
• Artikelnr.: 24765993

Inhaltsangabe

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.