China's Local Administration: Traditions and Changes in the Sub-National Hierarchy Contributor(s): Chung, Jae Ho (Editor), Lam, Tao-Chiu (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415547881 ISBN-13: 9780415547888 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2009 Annotation: This book presents a comprehensive survey of China's local administration. It considers all kinds of local government units and their administrative functions, both historically and in the present day: ranging from the provinces, centrally-administered municipalities and autonomous regions to prefectures, counties, townships and urban districts. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Affairs & Administration - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Political Science | American Government - State |
Dewey: 352.14 |
LCCN: 2009009521 |
Series: China Policy |
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.13 lbs) 226 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The remarkable changes in China over the past three decades are mostly considered at the national level, whereas local government - which has played and continues to play a key role in these developments - is often overlooked. The themes of China's local administrative hierarchy, and its historical evolution, have until now received scant attention; this book fills that gap, and presents a comprehensive survey of China's local administration, from the province down to the township. It examines the political and functional definitions and historical origins of the nine local administrative levels or categories in contemporary China: the province, the centrally-administered municipality, the ethnic minority autonomous region, the special administrative region, the deputy-provincial city, the prefecture, the county, township and urban district. It investigates how each of the different levels of China's local administration has developed historically, both before and after 1949; and it explores the functions, political and economic, that the different levels and units carry out, and how their relationships with superior and subordinate units have evolved over time. It also discusses how far the post-Mao reforms have affected local administration, and how the local administrative hierarchy is likely to develop going forward. |