Reviewing Studies on Villager Self-government in China:
The XiangTu School as an Example
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China University of Political Science and Law.
Publication date: 2009-09-29
Polish Sociological Review 2009;167(3):427-438
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The article draws the outline of the studies of villager self-government system in China, then
emphatically analyses a typical example, the XiangTu school, most scholars of which are teaching in the
Center of China. The article analyses the change of study direction of the XiangTu school. The author points
that the theoretical feature of the school is connecting villagers’ autonomy with governance of villages.
However, the author criticizes the school for its flaws on the methodology.