Abstract
This book is a story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation. The village sits in the Pearl River Delta, the engine of China's emergence as the hub of global manufacturing and production. The village's success relied on the creation of new economic collectives, its ability to leverage networks, and its proximity to Hong Kong to transform forever the formerly sleepy rural area. The result of almost 20 years of field work by the authors, Chinese Village, Global Market shows how outcomes are shaped by a number of factors such as path dependence, social structures, economic resources and local entrepreneurship. It will be of interest not only to those interested in Chinese economic and political development but also to students of development more generally and those interested in the interaction between global markets and local societies.
Citation
Saich, Anthony, and Biliang Hu. Chinese Village, Global Market: New Collectives and Rural Development: China in Transformation. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.