The restructuring of rural China is one of the most important elements of global social and economic change in the early twenty-first century.From a traditionally rural country,with deep cultural roots in the‘soil’,China has been transformed into a highly advanced and largely urbanized society within the course of a few decades.The scale and significance of the transformation is equivalent to the industrialization and urbanization of Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,and like the European experience a century earlier,its impacts reverberate around the globe.Yet,contemporary China is not Victorian-era Europe and whilst there are parallels,we cannot assume that the trajectories,consequences and responses are the same.
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