Securing the Countryside: Varieties of Rural State Building in China, Vietnam, Taiwan, and South Korea during the Cold War

• In Event: State Building and War Making in East Asia

Brief Overview

Luo argues that state infrastructural capacity and coalitions at the time of state formation, which shapes state-led rural reform, determines the divergent trajectories of authoritarian control of rural societies.

Author

• Kevin Wei Luo, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities