Table of Contents

Foreword:The End of the Village: the Urban Villages’ Great Transformations over the Last Decade.- Examining the "Urban Village": My Methodology in Studying "The End of Villages".- The Worship of Land and Enterprising Spirit.- A Village Without Arable Land and Agriculture.- The Village Boundaries and Life Radius.- From “Village Unit System” to “Village Corporate System”.- The Village-turned Enterprise and Internal Market.- Rental Housing Market and Peasants' Rationality.- Social Embeddedness and Incomplete Property Rights.- Informal Institutions and Village Social Networks.- The Exchange of “Renqing” and Private Lending in Rural Areas.- The Replicative Cycle, Replacement and Succession of Village Power.- The Social Stratification Structures in the Urban Villages: the Established and the Generated.- The Underground Economy of Urban Villages.- Conflict and Integration During the End of the Village:  Relocation of Ancestral Tombs and Change of Residences.- Appendix The Stories of Yangcheng Village.- Bibliography.- Afterword and Acknowledgements.

About the Author

Peilin Li is Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Member, Senior Researcher, and Doctoral Supervisor. He is also a Member of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, Member of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, a Member of The National “thirteen-five” Planning Expert Committee, Convenor of the Sociology Group of the National Social Science Fund Awards Committee, etc.