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Governing the Chinese in multi-ethnic colonial Burma between the 1890s and 1920s / Li, Yi

Li, Yi	Article
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This article analyses the development of the governing mechanism in British Burma relating to one particular ethnic group, the Chinese, between the 1890s and 1920s. Recognizing its limited knowledge of China and the Chinese, British Burma relied in the early days on experiences from other colonies to govern its Chinese immigrants and to handle Sino-Burmese border issues. The transfer of colonial knowledge, however, proved insufficient when the state witnessed increasing localization at the turn of the twentieth century. Interlocutors and communal elites therefore replaced imperial expatriates to form the main governing body, and in turn to some extent undermined and reconstructed colonial knowledge, as well as practice.

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Migration ; Colonialism ; Burma ; British India ; Overseas Chinese

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ID: 129100

New experiments with the "provincial administration of counties / Li, Yi; Wu, Fulong

Wu, Fulong	Journal Article
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2014.

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Since 2005. China has witnessed the emergence of a new form of administrative organization. In contrast with the earlier model of "City Jurisdiction Over Counties." which placed counties under the jurisdiction of cities. a new pilot program known as "Provincial Administration of Counties" has been launched. This program places counties and county-level cities under the direct administration of provinces. instead of prefecture-level cities. The central state has played a modest role in implementing this pilot program. whereas provincial and country-level governments have taken a more proactive approach. The central movement hopes that such a reform can address development imbalances that exist between counties and cities. Meanwhile. provincial governments see the reformats as a way to promote economic develop mint initiatives in counties and county-level cities. However. the implementation of reforms at the local level is not proceeding smoothly. This is mainly due to an asymmetry of power in city-county relations. itself' a legacy of earlier economic reforms that created the City Jurisdiction Over Counties system. This asymmetry has prevented ttrbanruraz tensions from being resolved. lnstead. such tensions have been shifted t'lownward to the city district level or upward to the regional level.

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Economic Reforms ; China ; Urban Planning ; Urban Development ; Economic planning ; Economic Reform ;
Asymmetry ; Development Strategy ; Social Reform ; Urban Growth ; Economic Strategy ; Provincial Administration ;
State Regime ; Emerging State ; State Space Analysis ; Mega City Development ; Administrative Organization ; City Jurisdiction ;
Unresolved Urban - Rural Tension ; Earlier Economic Reforms

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Reconsidering the controversial land use policy of linking the : a local government perspective / Huang, Zianjin; Li, Yi; Yu, Ran; Zhao, Xiaofeng

Zhao, Xiaofeng	Journal Article
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2014.

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The recent land use policy ol' "landing the l')eere;tse in Rural ('onxtrttelion Land with the Increase in L.'rh:tn ("onxtruetion l.and" i.\ an attempt of the government to address the tensions between protecting arable land and providing land lior construction by means of more intensive use of land. Nevertheless. the implementation ol" the policy has triggered notch controversy. in particular about predominant dependence upon retrial residential land totes consolidation and the pursuits of rural~ urban construction land quota transfer. Although local governments often take the blame for these issues. the case study of the comprehensive land consolidation project in Gull reveals the type of dilemma with which they are confronted. [t is shown that the potential for land consolidation is limited. whereby local governments have to turn to rural residential land consolidation to achieve the targets set by the central government for land consolidation. Furthennorc. the displacement and resettlement of rural dwellers puts tremendous financial pressure upon the local government. and it would be impossible to implement the central government mandate to build a new socialist countryside without selling land at a higher price. This article discusses the possibilities for a market-led land consolidation process and concludes that the targets of land consolidation and the implementation of the linking policy should \-'ar_v from region to region to match local levels of economic development and specifieities of the rural economy.

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Economic Development ; China ; Rural Development ; Urban Development ; Economic Reform ; Social Reform ;
Rural Economy ; Central Government ; Urban Growth ; Urban Economy ; Political Pressure ; Political Dilemma ;
Urban Construction Land ; Rural Construction Land ; Controversial Land ; Decrease in Rural Construction ; Increase in Urban Construction Land ; Local Government Perspective ;
Rural-Urban Construction ; Financial Pressure ; Socialist Countryside ; Economic Dilemma

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