Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture (The Library of Peasant Studies)

Since the late 1970s, China has experienced the most rapid social and economic changes in world history. Over 200 million rural inhabitants were lifted out of absolute poverty and tens of millions became wealthier than the average urban resident. This book offers an authoritative and in-depth analysis of the social and economic changes that have swept through the Chinese countryside. Topics covered include: land tenure and rural labour, social welfare, poverty alleviation, rural resettlement, food security, natural resource management and rural industrialization. The opening-up of China's countryside / Jacob Eyferth, Peter Ho, and Eduard B. Vermeer Regional differences in Chinese agriculture : results from the 1997 first National Agricultural Census / Roberto Fanfani and Christina Brasili Rethinking the peasant burden : evidence from a Chinese village / Li Xiande How not to industrialize : observations from a village in Sichuan / Jacob Eyferth Determinants of income from wages in rural Wuxi and Baoding : a survey of 22 villages / Eduard B. Vermeer The wasteland auction policy in northwest China : solving environmental degradation and rural poverty / Peter Ho Ningxia's third road to rural development : resettlement schemes as a last means to poverty reduction? / Rita Merkle A comparative study of projection models on China's food economy / Zhang Xiaoyong Social welfare in rural China / Jutta Hebel Gender difference in inheritance rights : observations from a Chinese village / Heather Xiaoquan Zhang Local state corporatism and private business / Maria Edin Development and environment : attitudes among small town residents in China / Ian Bradbury and Richard Kirkby.

Participants in the Sixth European Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development in China, held in Leiden at an undisclosed date, present 11 papers on rural and agricultural problems in the country's inland provinces, and have little to say about rural industrialization and the coastal areas. Their topics include regional differences in agriculture revealed by the 1997 first national agricultural census, lessons on how not to industrialize from a village in Sichuan, and social welfare in rural China. Distributed in the US by Taylor & Francis. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Covering topics like land tenure, rural labour, social welfare, poverty alleviation, natural resource management and rural industrialization, these papers analyse agricultural and rural changes in China since the 1970s This book offers an authoritative and in-depth analysis of the social and economic changes that have swept through the Chinese countryside in the last twenty years.