Varieties of Governance in China
Migration and Institutional Change in Chinese Villages
Jie Lu
Reviews and Awards
"This is an impressive study that leaves no doubt in the reader's mind that migration will transform both urban and rural China during this century. Varieties of Governance in China is a multidisciplinary triumph for asking challenging questions on the future of Chinese rural governance and demonstrating that the resultant conversation has the potential to bring scholars from anthropology, sociology, religion, history, political science, and economics together." --Journal of International Affairs
"This book makes a significant contribution to the study of institutional change and rural governance in China. Lu delivers his unique and original analysis in a straightforward manner that is easy to comprehend for graduates and undergraduate students in the fields of China studies, political science, economics, sociology and anthropology." -- The China Quarterly
"Jie Lu's book is a major theoretical statement on the role of institutions in local administration; it is also a demonstration of the crucial part played by a place's social environment-and ongoing changes therein-in grassroots governance. The book's multi-method-based framework makes it not only a model of social science, but also positions it to supercede some previous interpretations of how rural China actually operates." --Dorothy J. Solinger, University of California-Irvine, and author of Contesting Citizenship in Urban China
"This book is about how Chinese rural communities are caught between tradition and modernity. It shows how these communities coexist and interact with modern institutions of governance, while transforming and adapting themselves in the process. It is a must-read if one wants to know about what local community life in China will look like in the future." --Wenfang Tang, Stanley Hua Hsia Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Iowa
