More Than “Peasants Without Land”: Individualisation and Identity Formation of Landless Peasants in the Process of China’s State-Led Rural Urbanisation

In the course of state-led rural urbanisation over the past few decades, millions of Chinese peasants have been expropriated and relocated. After establishing a definition of these “landless peasants” as a heterogeneous social group connected mainly by the fact that its members had to give up their...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Isabel Heger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-12-01
Series:Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1868102620915000