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Over the last decade, a large part of the Chinese countryside has experienced a 'hollowing out' process in economy and state administration, as rapid urbanisation and development have concentrated in urban areas. To deal with this challenge, the Chinese government has launched rural programmes, resulting in significant transformation in the countryside. Applying the state rescaling theory as an analytical lens, this paper argues that these state-led rural programmes have strengthened the state role in governing the countryside significantly based on the case study of Jiangning. These programmes are not fixed yet developed and expanded through the interaction of multi-level governments. While local governments follow the discourse of the higher-level governments in this process, they also restructure the state apparatus for programme implementation. Local governments have some autonomy by echoing and responding to the initiative of the higher-level governments actively. Thus the programme evolution is not simply a top-down process as it encompasses interesting dynamics of state rescaling. Generally speaking, the state plays an important role in moving toward 'good governance' in rural China at the initial stage. The state-led rural programmes enable the state to regain its leading role in the countryside and restore the rural public administation to some extent. There is still a long way to go for the civil society to achieve self-governance in the countryside.

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Yang examines the political process of the Occupy Movement and adopts an actor-centered approach in the study of democratization, placing civil society as the focus of the analysis. A valuable resource for scholars of Hong Kong's Politics and a relevant case study for those studying the dynamics of social movements.

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Preface -- Chapter 1 Poverty Alleviation Process in Rural China -- Chapter 2 Literature Review -- Chapter 3 Absolute and Relative Changes in Rural Poverty -- Chapter 4 Pro-poor Growth for Rural China -- Chapter 5 The Decomposition of Income Growth and Income Inequality on Rural Poverty -- Chapter 6 Types of Economic Activities and Rural Residents' Poverty Dynamic Changes -- Chapter 7 Human Capital and Rural Residents' Poverty Dynamic Changes -- Chapter 8 Dynamic Rural Poverty Changes by Regions: Current Status and Prospects -- Chapter 9 The Impacts of Unbalanced Development on Rural Multidimensional Poverty -- Chapter 10 Relieving Relative Poverty in Rural China -- Appendix.

"This book examines the political-economic dynamics in the development of a leading global Internet giant: Alibaba. As both a prominent example of, as well as providing the basic infrastructure for, China's outward expansion, Alibaba demonstrates the complex interplay between different state agencies and units of capital in the context of the rise of global China. Hong Shen investigates the development and expansions of Alibaba and discusses how Alibaba has not only become a leader of China's increasingly globalizing internet but has also increasingly served as a basic infrastructure model for other Chinese companies to go global. Shen also addresses how this process has been constantly shaped and reshaped by complex state-capital interactions along the way. This book shows how different units of capital, both inside and outside of China, have interacted with Alibaba's developmental strategies and illustrates how different state agencies, both domestic and international, have enabled or constrained the company's development, especially its global expansion. This book will appeal to students and scholars of critical political economy of media, global media and digital industries, communication, technology and society, and internet studies. It will also be relevant to policy-makers working in the arena of global internet and trade policies"--

Intro -- Preface -- References -- Contents -- 1 Poverty Alleviation Process in Rural China -- 1 Evolution of Rural Poverty Alleviation Strategy in China -- 2 Changes of Official Rural Poverty Line in China -- 3 Changes in Targets of Poverty Alleviation in China's Rural Areas -- 4 Poverty Alleviation Governance Model -- 5 Poverty Alleviation Guarantee Network in Countryside of China -- 5.1 Rural Minimum Living Guarantee (Rural Dibao) -- 5.2 Rural Social Endowment Insurance -- 5.3 Medical Insurance -- 6 Summary -- References -- 2 Literature Review -- 1 Concepts of Poverty -- 1.1 From Absolute Poverty to Relative Poverty -- 1.2 From Income Poverty to Multidimensional Poverty -- 2 Relationship Between Economic Growth, Income Inequality and Poverty -- 2.1 Growth and Inequality: Kuznets Hypothesis -- 2.2 Growth and Poverty Alleviation: Trickle-Down Effect -- 2.3 Inequality and Poverty: Relative Deprivation and Residual Subsistence Ratio -- 2.4 Growth, Inequality and Poverty: Poverty Decomposition and Elasticity Measurement -- 3 Economic Growth, Inequality and Rural Poverty Changes -- 3.1 Discussion Around the Chen's Inverted-U Hypothesis -- 3.2 Trickle-Down Effect in China's Development -- 3.3 Empirical Study on the Poverty-Growth-Inequality Triangle -- 4 Expandability Review and Outlook -- 4.1 Concern for Subdivided Rural Households -- 4.2 Relative Poverty and Income Inequality -- 4.3 Multidimensional Poverty and Multiple Well-Being Development -- 5 Summary -- References -- 3 Absolute and Relative Changes in Rural Poverty -- 1 Long-Term Changes in Absolute and Relative Poverty in Rural China -- 2 Methods and Data -- 2.1 Data and Ungrouping Methods -- 2.2 Rationality Explanation of Selected Income -- 2.3 Kernel Density Estimation -- 2.4 Perspective on Relative Poverty -- 3 Absolute Poverty Changes of Rural Poverty -- 3.1 Research Design at a Glance.

Chapter 1. Physical settings and water challenges -- Chapter 2. Water resources management framework -- Chapter 3. Water resources management institutions -- Chapter 4. River basin management -- Chapter 5. Water resources allocation and regulation -- Chapter 6. Water rights system -- Chapter 7. Water pricing -- Chapter 8. Groundwater management -- Chapter 9 Water quality management -- Chapter 10. Recycled water use management -- Chapter 11. The strictest water resources management strategy and three redlines -- Chapter 12 River and lake leadership system -- Chapter 13. Water resources asset management -- Chapter 14. Water resources allocation and regulation in Yellow River basin -- Chapter 15. Agricultural water management in northern China -- Chapter 16 Integrated urban and rural water affair management reform: Shanghai and Beijing -- Chapter 17 -- Environmental flow definition and management: a case study of Jiaojiang River -- Chapter 18. Climate change and water resources -- Chapter 19 Conclusions and outlook.