Urban bias, rural bias or state bias? Urban‐rural relations in post‐revolutionary China
评估了“城市偏向”和“农村偏向”理论对中国的适用性，通过城乡生活水平差异、经济政策政治基础及部门间储蓄转移的实证证据，提出需补充“国家偏向”视角。
The authors aim to evaluate the relevance of ‘urban bias’ and ‘rural bias’ to the Chinese case. They present empirical evidence on the nature and extent of differentiation in rural‐urban living standards, examine the political basis of relevant economic policies and investigate the relationship between these policies: both the changes in labour productivity in each sector and the inter‐sectoral savings transfers. Both ‘urban’ and ‘rural bias’ hypotheses illuminate certain dimensions of Chinese development strategy. But the realities of rural‐urban relations have been complex, and analysis must be supplemented by a focus on the divide between state and society, and the question of ‘state bias’.