The Land Question in China: Agrarian Capitalism, Industrious Revolution, and East Asian Development

ISBN-13: 9780367662653 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 178 str.

Shaohua Zhan

Opis

This book examines the inevitability of full-scale, land-intensive capitalist agriculture in China, whilst analysing the labour-intensive path of the industrious revolution. Exploring these two rural development paths, it presents a detailed account of the rise of agrarian capitalism.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Land, Ming-Qing Transition, and the First Industrious Revolution 2. Socialism, Market Reform, and Long Road to the Second Industrious Revolution 3. Urban Bias and Rural Crisis: the Land Question beyond the Countryside 4. Rise of Agrarian Capitalism and Future of the Industrious Revolution 5. South Africa in Comparison: Dispossession, Agrarian Capitalism, and Struggles for Land 6. Land, Welfare, and the East Asian Development Path Revisited Conclusion

O autorze

Shaohua Zhan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include Chinese political economy, land politics, food security, and migration.