Political Leadership and Social Change at the Local Level in China

FAIN: RC-*1200-76

University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637-5418)
Tang Tsou (Project Director: May 1976 to October 1990)

To investigate the transformation of China's local administration at its most basic level the villages, market communities, and urban neighborhoods that lie organizationally below county level, in order to test the proposition that a continuous process has been occurring since late imperial times in which governments have sought to extend their formal apparatus down to sub - county level and to enmesh local society in a finer net of administrative control.

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