household behaviour based on the village level data. This book will help readers with a better understanding of rural China from … of Village Economy and Finance -- Chapter 10 Community Outlook and Spiritual Civilisation. … Zhejiang, and analysed the origins of such changes. The contents of the book contain examinations at household and village …

We consider risk sharing in rural China during its rapid economic transformation from the late 1980s through the late … 2000s. We document an erosion of consumption insurance against both household-level idiosyncratic and village …-level aggregate income shocks, and show that this decline is related to observable economic changes: the shift from agriculture to …

and places. Instead we must continue to navigate the path between exoticizing China and treating its rural transformation …