How discontinuities become continuities: the dynamics of participatory development in rural China
This thesis concerns practical and theoretical issues relating to the dynamics of participatory development in rural China. It focuses on differential strategies and responses to participatory interventions; socially constructed processes that are an outcome of interactions between various actors (project implementing agencies, government officials, village leaders, local farmers, etc) The book explores some of the complexities involved in these processes and identifies the critical points at which change is negotiated and agreed upon by the different parties.