This book examines questions of change and inertia in the context of the longstanding grievances over excessive taxation in rural China. How can some changes be

Explores the economic, social and financial changes that have transformed China's rural governance over the past twenty years.

Tax administration improvements have contributed significantly to a doubling of China’s tax-to-GDP ratio and the substantial reduction in taxpayers’ complia

This is the first book-length treatment of the political causes and consequences of the Great Leap Famine (1959-61), one of the worst tragedies in human history

Presents a story of two Chinas – an entrepreneurial rural China and a state-controlled urban China. In the 1980s, rural China gained the upper hand. In the 19