Rural Development & Rural Democracy

Rural Development Institute China Program (Seattle)

Centre for Chinese Rural Studies (China Central Normal University)

Village Works
(A PhotoVoice Project on Women in Rural Yunnan, Wellesley College)

UN Food and Agricultural Organization Country Profile-China

Rural Women (English web site for Chinese NGO)

Rural China Education Foundation (US NGO)

"Unrest in Rural China: A 2003 Assessment"
(Thomas Bernstein, Columbia University)

"Crisis in the Hinterland: Rural Discontent in China"
(Woodrow Wilson Center Special Report, March 2003)

Carter Center China Village Elections Project

Chinese Village Election (Congressional-Executive Commission on China)

Vote of Confidence, A Voting Protocol and Participation in China's Village Elections (2007)
Scott Rozelle Xiaopeng Pang, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Working Paper

Village Self-Governance (Greenchina)

Muddling Towards Democracy: Political Change in Grassroots China (Anne F. Thurston, 1998)