Thomas Heberer: 4 books

Book cover of Doing Business in Rural China

Doing Business in Rural China

Liangshan's New Ethnic Entrepreneurs

by Thomas Heberer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

Longlisted for the 2009 ICAS Book Award Mountainous Liangshan Prefecture, on the southern border of Sichuan Province, is one of China's most remote regions. Although Liangshan's majority ethnic group, the Nuosu (now classified by the Chinese government as part of the Yi ethnic group), practiced...
Book cover of The Politics of Community Building in Urban China
by Thomas Heberer, Christian Göbel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011

This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban China after the increased economization of life in the 1980s had initially forced it to withdraw. Based on several months...
Book cover of Rural China: Economic and Social Change in the Late Twentieth Century

Rural China: Economic and Social Change in the Late Twentieth Century

Economic and Social Change in the Late Twentieth Century

by Jie Fan, Thomas Heberer, Wolfgang Taubmann
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015

This book reports the findings of two field studies conducted between 1993 and 2001 in seven townships and six provinces in China. The authors describe the process of rural urbanization and its related economic, social, and political changes by focusing mainly on the zhen (town), in addition to administrative...
Book cover of China and Its National Minorities: Autonomy or Assimilation
by Thomas Heberer
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017

This title was first published in 1990: This book is a study of past and present policies of the People's Republic of China towards its numerous and varied minority groups, a subject about which there is scant information in the West. It examines the impact of Chinese culture on these diverse groups...
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