This volume includes, with permission, a revised version of material from Russell Harwood, “Negotiating Modernity at China’s Periphery: Development and Policy Interventions in Nujiang Prefecture,” in Elaine Jeffreys, ed., China’s Governmentalities: Governing Change, Changing Government (London and New York: Routledge, 2009), 63–87.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Harwood, Russell.
China’s new socialist countryside :
modernity arrives in the Nu River Valley / Russell Harwood.
pages cm. — (Studies on ethnic groups in China)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-295-99325-6 (hb : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-295-99338-6 (pb : alk. paper)
1. Rural development—China—Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou.
2. Rural population—China—Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou.
3. Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou (China)—Social conditions.
4. Nujiang Lisuzu Zizhizhou (China)—Economic conditions.
I. Title.
HN740.N85H37 2013
307.1'4120951—dc23 2013027329
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