Discontented Miracle: Growth, Conflict, and Institutional Adaptations in China (Series on Contemporary China) (Series on Contemporary China)

Contents......Page 10
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 6
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
Decentralization......Page 14
The Rise, Decline, and Proliferation of Media......Page 17
“CORPORATIZING” THE STATE-OWNED MEDIA......Page 28
EVALUATING COMMERCIALIZATION......Page 31
Guangzhou Daily......Page 35
Southern Daily......Page 37
BROADCAST MEDIA GROUPS: HUNAN MEDIA GROUP AND SHANGHAI MEDIA GROUP......Page 40
CASE STUDY: THE 2003 SARS EPIDEMIC......Page 42
Damage Control......Page 43
The Government Response to the Crisis......Page 53
Case Summary......Page 55
CONCLUSION......Page 58
THE HUKOU SYSTEM......Page 60
THE HUKOU SYSTEM IN THE 2000s: A SKETCH......Page 61
Functions of the System......Page 63
Managing the System......Page 65
“Deep Reform”......Page 68
THE USEFULNESS OF THE HUKOU SYSTEM: GROWTH AND STABILITY......Page 74
THE NEGATIVES: BREWING PROBLEMS AND TENSIONS......Page 82
Promoting Inequalities......Page 84
A COUNTRY OF MANY LAYERS AND DIFFERENT SOCIETIES......Page 89
CONCLUSION: HARD QUESTIONS AND TOUGH CHOICES......Page 93
INTRODUCTION......Page 100
HOUSING DISTRIBUTION AND COMMERCIALIZATION......Page 101
FAST GROWTH OF THE REAL ESTATE MARKET......Page 104
CONFLICTS BETWEEN HOME BUYERS AND DEVELOPERS......Page 106
Unequal Resources......Page 107
Strategic Moves......Page 111
The Role of the Local Government......Page 113
CONSEQUENCES OF CONFLICTS......Page 115
DISCUSSION......Page 117
CONCLUSION......Page 119
4. Multifaceted State and Fragmented Society: Dynamics of Environmental Movement in China Yanfei Sun and Dingxin Zhao......Page 122
THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA’S ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT19......Page 129
SAVING THE SNUB-NOSED MONKEY AND THE TIBETAN ANTELOPE......Page 138
CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE NUJIANG DAM PROJECT......Page 143
DISCUSSION......Page 155
ABBREVIATION LIST:......Page 170
5. Food Safety and the Development of Regulatory Institutions in China Waikeung Tam and Dali L. Yang......Page 172
THE MILK POWDER SCANDAL AND THE GROWING CONCERN OVER FOOD SAFETY......Page 174
THE EVOLVING ARCHITECTURE OF FOOD SAFETY REGULATION......Page 176
Continuing Fragmentation of Regulatory Authority......Page 179
Money Over Safety......Page 184
Bureaucratic Competition and Corruption......Page 187
The Rural vs. Urban Regulatory Divide......Page 188
THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN SOCIOECONOMIC REGULATION......Page 192
Policy Conflict Between Food Safety and Employment Creation......Page 193
CRISIS AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT......Page 195
CONCLUSIONS......Page 201
INTRODUCTION......Page 204
SPATIAL INEQUALITY AND POVERTY DISTRIBUTION IN CHINA......Page 206
Poverty Alleviation Strategy......Page 208
Designation of Poverty County and Fund Allocation......Page 210
Subsidized Loan Program......Page 214
Public Works Program (Food for Work)......Page 216
Government Budgetary Grants......Page 217
Other Anti-poverty Programs and Rural Social Security......Page 218
Fiscal Decentralization, Un(der)-funded Mandates, and Poverty Alleviation......Page 220
Local Governance and Poverty Alleviation......Page 226
CONCLUSIONS......Page 229
7. Grain for Green or Grain for Gain: An Empirical Evaluation of the Sloping Land Conversion Program in China Jintao Xu and Ran Tao......Page 234
Program Operation......Page 238
Program Cost-Effectiveness......Page 240
Failure in State Grain Policy and Central Government Motivation......Page 245
Simplified Compensation Standards, Fast Expansion, and Local Governance......Page 249
Grain Market Turnaround and Radical Program Adjustment......Page 252
Farmers’ Autonomy in Program Implementation......Page 256
Lack of Administrative and Financial Resources in Program Implementation......Page 258
Low Survival Rates in Afforestation......Page 259
SLCP Planning......Page 260
Program Impact on Participant Income......Page 261
Income Risks and Grain Security for Program Participants......Page 270
CONCLUSION......Page 272
INTRODUCTION......Page 278
VILLAGE SELF-GOVERNANCE AND ELECTIONS IN CHINA......Page 279
From Election to Governance......Page 283
From Theory to General Principles......Page 287
NON-ELECTORAL INSTITUTIONS AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN RURAL CHINA......Page 291
Tax-for-Fee Reforms and the Abolishment of the Agricultural Tax......Page 292
Accounting and Auditing Reforms......Page 296
Transparency and Cunwu Gongkai......Page 300
PARTICIPATORY DECISION MAKING......Page 303
CONCLUSION: IMPROVING GOVERNANCE IN RURAL CHINA......Page 308
Index......Page 310
About the Contributors......Page 320
About the Editor......Page 322