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

ISBN-13: 9780415789103 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 178 str.

Shaohua Zhan

Opis

This book examines contemporary rural development in China from a historical perspective and contends that the economic resilience has had much to do with the rural economy, weaving together the methods of historical comparison, multilevel analysis and case study. It examines the recent transformation of Chinese agriculture and rural industry, along with related issues such as labor migration and urbanization. In addition, it is built on the author's years of field research in Wujin county in Jiangsu province and Aohan county in eastern Inner Mongolia.

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.