This book explores the link between the everyday relations of gender and the reform of the rural political economy in the 1980's, and argues that the reconstitu

This is the story of how the women's movement in China took advantage of the government's official efforts to position women in the rural economic reforms of th

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Power and Patronage examines the unwritten rules and inner workings of contemporary China's local politics and government. It exposes how these rules have helpe