Institutions in transition : land ownership, property rights, and social conflict in China /

With its focus on land policy and administration, including all major natural resources such as agricultural land, forest, grassland and wasteland, this book is a comprehensive review of China's land property rights reform.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ho, Peter, 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:Studies on contemporary China (Oxford, England)
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Plates; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Credibility of Agricultural Land Tenure, or Why Intentional Institutional Ambiguity Might Work; 2. Why the Village Has No Power: Land Ownership Disputes and Customary Tenure; 3. Governing China's Grasslands: The Creation of Empty Institutions; 4. Contested Spaces: Forest Rights, Registration, and Social Conflict; 5. Going, Going, Gone! The Four Wastelands Auction Policy; 6. Between Nationalization and Privatization: Common Property as the Third Way?