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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"rural reform"”.
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Chinese Peasants on the Wheels of Change: Rural Reform and Its Impact in a Tianjin Village
The remarkable flourishing of life-cycle and calendrical rituals is a sign of the state's diminishing ideological hegemony in the village. The main proponents of traditional rituals refused to endorse the state's application of the science/superstition, modernity/tradition divides to their own …
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Design for a student homestead at a land-grant university: integrating vernacular patterns, local systems, and ecological heritage
… and academics during the decades of rural reform and beautification, which spanned the progressive era. The investigation sets forth a foundation and allows a dialog between historic and contemporary homestead design. Finally, programming on site is suggested based on successful small …
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Dynamics of Rural School Consolidation in the Arkansas Ozarks, 1900-1950
… the historical development and issues of rural school consolidation—an understudied yet important and community-changing aspect of rural American history—in the Arkansas Ozarks, primarily in the first half of the twentieth century. In a broader sense, it serves as a case study for the …
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Rural Income and Wealth Inequality in China: A Study of Anhui and Sichuan Provinces, 1994-1995
… and wealth inequality. With the deepening of the rural reform and the development of rural industry, a large number of people were lifted out of poverty. However, as the people's living standards are rising, disparities in income and wealth are also being accentuated. This thesis's main purpose is …
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China’s Escape from the “Big Bang”: The 1980s Price Reform Debate in Historical Perspective
… for China’s economic success. But the Chinese reform approach was highly contested in the 1980s and China came close to implementing a big bang. My dissertation sheds light on this critical crossroads by asking on what intellectual grounds China escaped a big bang in price reform; or to turn …