《农民与市场：中国基层政权与乡镇企业（英文版）》作者潘维以市场化为框架，以中国农村工业的兴衰史为主线索来研究当代农村。本书指出，在市场化过程中，中国基层政权承担了国家不可能承担的责任，为中国农民走向市场架起了一座精致的桥梁，扮演了市场中介的角色。在基层政权的带领下，亿万农村人以小型农村集体为单位，扶老携幼闯荡工业市场，保障了自身的安全，赢得了全世界市场对手的尊重，换取了本地社区的文明与进步，乃至全中国的稳定和繁荣。一个地区的基层政权能否扮演农民与市场之间的中介，决定这个地区的农民在市场中的命运。农民在市场中的不同命运则决定中国社会的现状。本书提出，基层政权能否发挥市场中介作用，取决于继承回归家庭耕作之前的基层政权组织形式和集体主义精神，在于农村社区的凝聚力，也在于国内的主流意识形态。

《农民与市场：中国基层政权与乡镇企业（英文版）》由潘维编著。

The focus of this book is those 15 years of successful rural industrialization in China, from 1980 to 1995. I seek to explain why some regions in rural China achieved industrialization, while other regions did not. Chapter Three discusses the commune and brigade enterprises (CBEs) preceding the township and village enterprises (TVEs). Chapter Seven addresses privatization reform of TVEs, which,starting from the late-20th century and coming to an end at the beginning of the 21st century, terminated collective TVEs in their traditional sense. This book,therefore, studies the entire history of rural collective industry, which by the year of 2003. when the Chinese edition of this book was published, had lasted for half a century.

Yet. this book is not a book on history. Nor is It an economics book on the rural industrial economy. This is a book on political science, which seeks to understand Chinas rural economy from a political point of view, and to understand the Chinese political miracle.

Preface

Chapter One INTRODUCTION

 I. Rural Collectives, TVEs, and Property Rights

 II. Introduction to Chapters

 III. Sources and Methodology

Chapter Two MARKETIZATION AND PEASANTS

 I. State-Society Dichotomy

 II. Grass Rural Polities under the Framework of Marketization

(1) The State in Marketization

(2) The Private Sector in Marketization

(3) Rural Collectives in Marketization

 111. Marketization and Market Intermediaries

Chapter Three LEGACIES OF SOCIALISM

 I. Rise and Fall of Commune Enterprises

(1) The Rise of Commune Enterprises

(2) The Fall of Commune Enterprises: Failure of Grain Production

 11. The Rise of Commune and Brigade Enterprises (CBEs)

(1) Achievements

(2) Earlier Explanations

 111. The Socialist Heritage

(1) "Advantages of Socialism"

(2) CBEs' Shared Lifeboat with Rural Large Collectives

(3) Organizational Pattern of Socialist Rural Grassroots Authorities

(4) Industrial Collectives and Grain Production

 IV. Ordeal at the Juncture

 V. Summary

Chapter Four ON THE ROAD TO MARKETIZATION: THE LOSERS

 I. Renshou Peasant Riots

(1) General Conditions

(2) National Highway 213

(3) Background

(4) "Riots"

 II. A Failed Intermediary

(1) Self-help for Individual Peasants

(2) Crippled Local Authorities in Renshou

 III. Family Farming, Rural Cadres, TVEs, and Marketization

(1) Family Farming Policy

(2) Family Farming, Rural Cadres, and TVEs

(3) TVEs and Marketization

 IV. Summary

Addendum Interviews with Peasants of Xiaogang Village by Chen Chuang & Zeng Defang

Chapter Five ON THE ROAD TO MARKETIZATION: THE WINNERS

 2. Competition over Industrial Resources

(1) Procuring Capital

(2) Acquiring Technology

(3) An Eroded Planned System

(4) Commercializing Bureaucratic Resources

 II. Strength of Collective Competition

(1) A "Back-to-the-Future" Village in Jiangsu Province

(2) A "Back-to-the-Future" Village in Shanxi Province

(3) A "Back-to-the-Future" Village in Shaanxi Province

(4) A "Back-to-the-Future" Village in Henan Province

 III. Summary

Chapter Six VARIATIONS ON THE SAME THEME

 I. The Exceptions

(1) Wenzhou Family Workshops and Rural Grassroots Authorities

(2) Pearl River Delta and Hong Kong

(3) Southern Jiangsu and Shanghai City

 II. Four Intermediary Models and Their Social Consequences

(1) Rural Society in Wenzhou Prefecture

(2) Rural Society in the Sichuan Basin

(3) Rural Society in the Pearl River Delta

(4) Rural Society in the Yangtze River Delta

 III. Shareholding Reform and Privatization in Southern Jiangsu

 IV. Summary

Chapter Seven THE TVE IS DEAD,LONG LIVE THE TVE!

 I. "Transformation": Consequence of Policy

(1) "Transformation" as a Consequence of Policy

(2) Non-ideological Reasons for the "Transformation"

 II. How Ideology Led to Policy

(1) Losses and Debt of TVEs

(2) Leadership Motivation and Grassroots Authority Intervention

(3) "Gray" Market

(4) Cases Used to Support Privatization

 III. Long Live the TVEs

Chapter Eight CONCLUSION

 I. Politics of Marketization in Rural China

 II. Rural China in the Future

 III. Implications of the Book's Conclusions

(1) The Value of Preexisting Institutions

(2) Urban China's Transition to a Market Economy

(3) Village "Sea Elections" and Myths of Democracy

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