Beneath the China Boom Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market by Julia Chuang

Beneath the China Boom Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market by Julia Chuang

By: Julia Chuang

Publisher: University of California Press

Print ISBN: 9780520305458, 0520305450

eText ISBN: 9780520973428, 0520973429

Edition: 1st

For nearly four decades, China’s manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers, who travel seasonally between villages where they farm for subsistence and cities where they work. Yet recently local governments have moved away from manufacturing and toward urban expansion and construction as a development strategy. As a result, at least 88 million rural people to date have lost rights to village land. In Beneath the China Boom, Julia Chuang follows the trajectories of rural workers, who were once supported by a village welfare state and are now landless. This book provides a view of the undertow of China’s economic success, and the periodic crises—a rural fiscal crisis, a runaway urbanization—that it first created and now must resolve.

Additional ISBNs

9780520305441, 0520305442