The Regional Variation of Rural Governance and the Logics of Peasant Action

Translation © 2008 by M.E. Sharpe, Inc., from the Chinese text: He Xuefeng, “Nongmin xingdong luoji yu xiangcun zhili de quyu chayi,” Open Times (Kaifang shidai) 1 (2007), pp. 105–21. Abridged translation by Matthew A. Hale. He Xuefeng is a professor of sociology and director of the Center for Research on Rural Governance at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. *See Alexander Day, “Guest Editor’s Introduction,” Chinese Sociology and Anthropology 41, no. 1 (Fall 2008), for a discussion of the term “rural governance” (xiangcun zhili) as used by the central China school.—Trans. He Xuefeng