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  • Networks and their Nodes: Urban Society on Taiwan*

  • Susan Greenhalgh
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 99 / September 1984
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 February 2009, pp. 529-552
    Print publication:
    September 1984

  • Just below the glass-sheathed surface of Taiwan's modern cities, urban life is structured by webs of social ties that may be among the closest knit and farthest flung in the world. Family-centred, these personal networks bind urban residents to one another, to kin in the countryside, and to kin all over the globe, obliterating the neat social distinctions between urban and rural, domestic and foreign. Family networks undergird both the society and the economy of Taiwan. Over the past 35 years Taiwan's families have been if not the island's greatest, certainly its least appreciated resource. Family mobility strategies have both speeded development and tempered disparities due to ethnicity, class and spatial location. Yet these same families may be the greatest obstacle to further, capital-intensive development, for they are insular and atomistic, and their resources are limited and subject to periodic break-up. However, social change is underway that is likely to reduce the size of the family per se, and increase the importance of supra-family kinship networks. Such shifts would have far-reaching effects on the society and economy of the island.

  • “Economics in Command?” Ideology and Policy Since the Third Plenum, 1978–1984

  • Stuart R. Schram
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 99 / September 1984
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 February 2009, pp. 417-461
    Print publication:
    September 1984

  • In this article, I shall attempt to give an overview of the most important political and ideological developments during the past six years, and in this context, to assess current trends in China. The three-word title is, of course, deliberately modelled on the Great Leap slogan “Politics in command”, and is intended to evoke the problem of whether or not policy-making since 1978 has been largely shaged by economic realities, and/or by the economic goals of the, leadership I have placed a question mark after it because, though I shall certainly express some opinions on this topic before I have done, I doubt that the issue can as yet be regarded as finally settled.

  • Post–1978 Rural Economic Policy and Peasant Income in China

  • Lee Travers
  • Journal:
    The China Quarterly / Volume 98 / June 1984
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 February 2009, pp. 241-259
    Print publication:
    June 1984

  • Per capita peasant income in China rose only 0·5 per cent per year over the two decades prior to 1978. Rural income growth was not only slow, it also lagged far behind the 1·7 per cent per year rate of the urban sector, which had started from a higher base. In December 1978 participants at the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party ratified major policy changes designed to increase peasant income substantially. These and ensuing changes have raised the profitability of agriculture and altered production and marketing patterns. Before evaluating the magnitude and sources of income growth it will be useful to outline the major policy changes.

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