MAKING CAPITALISM IN RURAL CHINA

Book ID/图书代码： 04289512B52002

English Summary/英文概要： This stimulating and challenging book explores the duplicitous nature of development in China. On the positive side, it brings longer and healthier lives; fewer children dead before they are five years old; more comfort and security from famine and disaster; more education; more communication; more travel; less war. But from another, darker perspective, development brings violence to some people – those who are in the way of the new things, those who cannot adapt to the new ways – and it threatens old knowledges, habits and societies as it disrupts old power structures.

Michael Webber presents fascinating case studies that demonstrate what these forms of development mean for people who are relatively weak or powerless – those who post-colonial theorists call the subalterns. The cases illustrate how development can change the manner in which people relate to each other and threatens their entire environment. Through this detailed consideration of the impacts of development on the people who live in those places, he examines whether these changes represent the emergence of capitalism or a transition, develops a theory of relationships between economy and daily life and questions the very nature of Chinese capitalism.

This multidisciplinary study encompasses the social sciences to provide a coherent view of the forms that development takes in various places within rural China. As such, it will prove a fascinating and thought-provoking read for undergraduates, postgraduate students and researchers within economics, Asian studies, development studies and geography.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这本既刺激又富有挑战性的书探讨了中国发展的两面性。积极方面:它带来了更长久更健康得生活；越来越少的孩子在五岁之前去世；更多舒适和保障以远离饥馑与灾荒；人们有了更多的受教育、与人交流和旅游的机会；以及战争的减少。但另一方面，从长远角度看，这些发展给那些妨碍新事物发展、以及不能适应新的生活方式的人带来了威胁；由于旧的权利结构遭到了破坏，它还威胁着旧知识、生活习惯和社会团体。

迈克尔.韦伯提出了引人入胜的案例研究，证明了这些发展模式对那些弱势群体意味着什么，即殖民地时期之后的理论家称为部下的那些人。这些案例阐明了发展是如何改变那些使人们彼此之间相联系的习惯及威胁他们整个生活环境的。通过这些详细的思考，我们知道了发展给生活在这片土地上的人们所带来的影响。他还调查了这种改变是否代表着资本主义的浮现或过渡。他发展了关于人类关系同经济和日常生活的理论，并对中国资本主义的本质提出疑问。

这种多学科的研究以社会科学的角度提供提供了一种连贯的模式，即中国农村的各个领域都在发展着。同样的，这本书无论是对本科生、研究生、经济学专家、亚洲研究、发展研究和地理学研究来说，都将是一本迷人的、发人深省的著作。(LNL)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 迈克尔韦伯是澳大利亚墨尔本大学资源管理和地理学院的。

Michael Webber, Department of Resource Management and Geography, The University of Melbourne, Australia

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