China S Peasant Agriculture And Rural Society

Author : Jan Douwe van der Ploeg,Jingzhong Ye
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317285458

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China's Peasant Agriculture and Rural Society by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg,Jingzhong Ye Pdf

China's agriculture and rural society has undergone rapid changes in recent years. Many poorer farmers and younger people have moved to cities, and yet China has an immense challenge to feed a growing and more affluent population. This book provides a ‘bottom-up view’ of China’s agriculture, showing how the many millions of Chinese peasants make a living. It presents a vivid description of the mechanisms used by rural households to defend and sustain their livelihoods, increase their agricultural production and improve the quality of their lives. The authors examine the newly emerging trajectories of entrepreneurial and capitalist farming and assess whether such alternatives will be able to meet the enormous social, economic and environmental challenges that China faces. The book also explores the paradigm that has underpinned the organisation and development of China’s agriculture from ancient times to the present day. This shows the importance of balancing in the Chinese model as compared to the one-sided imposition of continual modernization in the western model. It is argued that such balancing is at the core of the current Sannong policy, referring to the three ruralities of food sovereignty, wellbeing for peasant households and an attractive countryside.

Author : Norman Long,Jingzhong Ye,Yihuan Wang
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849806992

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Rural Transformations and Development - China in Context by Norman Long,Jingzhong Ye,Yihuan Wang Pdf

Rural Transformations and Development China in Context is a thoughtful book in both senses penetrating and packed with ideas. True to its title, it takes the reader through the main socio-economic and political changes of Chinese rural society. The book brings together a selected group of authoritative, international experts on agricultural development with particular reference to China. It is a good read for everyone, and an eminently recommendable text for professionals and students interested in issues of China s rural change. Peter Ho, University of Groningen, The Netherlands This is an insightful and excellent theoretical and empirical collection about China s contemporary agrarian transformation critically studied not in isolation from either the urban sector or the broader world, but in relation to these. It is a must-read for academics and development policy practitioners who are interested in agrarian and development issues in China in particular and the world more generally. Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Saint Mary s University, Canada Bringing together contributions by some of the leading Western scholars working on paths of rural transformation with studies by their counterparts in China, this book examines the value of contemporary development theories for understanding the specificities of China s trajectory of change. It is a first-class contribution both to Modern China studies and to the renaissance of international research on agrarian change that is now going on. It deserves a wide readership. John Harriss, Simon Fraser University at Vancouver, Canada Interesting comparative perspectives are coupled to extensive on-the-ground research in this exploration of the vast changes underway in China s villages. This book by 19 specialists pushes forward our knowledge of the circumstances and challenges faced by an eighth of humankind. Jonathan Unger, Australian National University This unique book explores the varied perspectives on contemporary processes of rural transformation and policy intervention in China. The expert contributors combine a critical review of current theoretical viewpoints and global debates with a series of case studies that document the specificities of China s pathways to change. Central issues focus on the dynamics of state peasant encounters; the diversification of labour and livelihoods; out-migration and the blurring of rural and urban scenarios; the significance of issues of value and capital and their gender implications; land ownership and sustainable resource management; struggles between administrative cadres and local actors; and the dilemmas of participatory development. Rural Transformations and Development China in Context will prove a fascinating and stimulating read for academics and researchers in the areas of Asian studies, development and agriculture, and public policy.

Author : Deng Zhenglai
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814293327

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China's Economy by Deng Zhenglai Pdf

Containing ten quality chapters on China''s rural reforms and agricultural development, this first volume from the Series on Developing China: Translated Research from China emphasizes the importance of countryside, agriculture and the role of peasants in China''s economy. While the Chinese revolution has traveled a path of OC encircling the cities from the rural areasOCO, Chinese reforms were likewise started in promoting the household contract responsibility system in the rural areas OCo the majority of its population living in the countryside makes it the focus of the reforms. Such structural issues that readjustment of interests entailed as urban-rural divide and poor-rich gap are closely related to the rural reform. For this, a rural study centered on the three rural issues (agriculture, rural areas and peasants), or peasantography, is actually an academic OC gold mineOCO, which contains the richest possibilities for Chinese social science to contribute to the world. The above mentioned chapters cover an extensive range of issues in rural reform and agricultural development in China, including property right, food trade structure, the Township and Village Enterprises, non-agricultural employment, the mobility of labor force, land distribution, taxation and saving behavior. The research approach ranges from a macro- to microeconomics level, while in terms of research methodology, property theory, game model and quantitative economics are used, in combination with historiography and empirical case studies. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Academic Inquiries into the Chinese Success Story (116 KB). Contents: Academic Inquiries into the OC Chinese Success StoryOCO (Z-L Deng); Gender Inequality in the Land Tenure System of Rural China (L Zhu); The Allocation of Decision-Making Power and Changes in the Decision-Making Style: Systematic Thoughts on China''s Rural Problems (S-G Zhang & N Zhao); Farmers'' Tax Burden in Rural China: A Political Economy Analysis (R Tao et al.); Effects of Labor Out-Migration and Income Growth and Inequality in Rural China (S Li); Grain versus Food: A Hidden Issue in China''s Food Policy Debate (F Lu); Saving Behavior in a Transition Economy: An Empirical Case Study of Rural China (G-H Wan et al.); Township Enterprises and Their Interest Distribution in Reform: A Three-Player Game Model (R-Z Ke); Rural Interregional Inequality and Off-Farm Employment in China (P Zhang); Food Demand and Nutritional Elasticity in Poor Rural Areas of China (J-W Zhang & F Cai); Reform in China''s Rural Areas: The Changes in the Relationship between the State and Land Ownership OCo A Retrospect on the Changes in Economic Institutions (Q-R Zhou). Readership: Economists, political scientists, sociologists, advanced undergraduates and graduate students interested in China''s economy, rural areas and society."

Author : Philip Huang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1985-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0804780994

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The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China by Philip Huang Pdf

The author presents a convincing new interpretation of the origins and nature of the agrarian crisis that gripped the North China Plain in the two centuries before the Revolution. His extensive research included eighteenth-century homicide case records, a nineteenth-century country government archive, large quantities of 1930's Japanese ethnographic materials, and his own field studies in 1980. Through a comparison of the histories of small family farms and larger scale managerial farms, the author documents and illustrates the long-term trends of agricultural commercialization, social stratification, and mounting population pressure in the peasant economy. He shows how those changes, in the absence of dynamic economic growth, combined over the course of several centuries to produce a majority, not simply of land-short peasants or of exploited tenants and agricultural laborers, but of poor peasants who required both family farming and agricultural wage income to survive. This interlocking of family farming with wage labor furnished a large supply of cheap labor, which in turn acted as a powerful brake of capital accumulation in the economy. The formation of such a poor peasantry ultimately altered both the nature of village communities and their relations with the elites and the state, creating tensions that led in the end to revolution.

Author : René Trappel
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739199374

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China's Agrarian Transition by René Trappel Pdf

More than thirty years ago the political turn that brought the dismantling of agricultural collectives and exclusive rights to small plots of farmland for rural families initiated a historic return to smallholding in the People’s Republic of China. Today, agriculture in China is changing again. In many villages smallholder farming is giving way to large agricultural enterprises. This book explores this latest transformation of Chinese agriculture. It traces how the peasantry’s frustration with the farming conditions, the priorities of national and local political agents and the changes in the management of collective land since the return to family-based farming have paved the way for a unique Chinese agrarian transition. The argument is based on careful analysis of agricultural politics since the early 1980s and data gathered in three field trips to Shandong, Sichuan, and Guizhou Provinces between 2008 and 2010. The findings highlight the importance of institutional path-dependencies and strategic government intervention (or its absence) for economic transformation. China’s Agrarian Transition is one of the first comprehensive accounts of the latest developments in agriculture in the People’s Republic and will provide a stimulating read for political scientists, sociologists, economists, and experts on China interested in the ongoing transformation of China’s countryside.

Author : Wang Xianming
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000226904

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Rural China, 1901–1949 by Wang Xianming Pdf

Highlighting the interwoven relationship between Chinese rural society and larger historical forces, this book charts the evolution of China’s rural society from 1901 to 1949, concentrating on the major changes of this period and the scenarios developed to modernize rural society during the half century leading up to the Revolution. The modern history of rural China is one of sweeping institutional and structural transformation across many dimensions. As the first half of the twentieth century unfolded, against a backdrop of turbulent changes across a country that underwent industrialization, urbanization and modernization, China’s agriculture, rural population and rural communities encountered many crises, but also showed remarkable resilience and capacity for adaptation and reform. In each of the six chapters, the author delves into one aspect or examines one period of this massive transformation, and identifies the social, economic, political and cultural signifi cance of these tumultuous processes at work. The book will appeal to both scholars and general readers interested in modern Chinese history and the transformation of rural China.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814465991

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China's Economy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Zhun Xu
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781583676981

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From Commune to Capitalism by Zhun Xu Pdf

Socialism and capitalism in the Chinese countryside -- Chinese agrarian change in world-historical context -- Agricultural productivity and decollectivization -- The political economy of decollectivization -- The achievement, contradictions, and demise of rural collectives

Author : Jack M. Potter
Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015008634795

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Capitalism and the Chinese Peasant by Jack M. Potter Pdf

Case study of a rural area village in Hong Kong as an example of the effects of social change and economic development within a capitalist framework - covers historical aspects, the occupational structure, rural workers, cultivation techniques, farm management, property ownership, land tenure, family budgets, the standard of living, cultural factors, etc. Bibliography pp. 207 to 212.

Author : Emily T. Yeh,Kevin J. O'Brien,Jingzhong Ye
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317661740

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Rural Politics in Contemporary China by Emily T. Yeh,Kevin J. O'Brien,Jingzhong Ye Pdf

This collection provides an overview of China’s rural politics, bringing scholarship on agrarian politics from various social science disciplines together in one place. The twelve contributions, spanning history, anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, political science, and geography, address enduring questions in peasant studies, including the relationship between states and peasants, taxation, social movements, rural-urban linkages, land rights and struggles, gender relations, and environmental politics. Taking rural politics as the power-inflected processes and struggles that shape access and control over resources in the countryside, as well as the values, ideologies and discourses that shape those processes, the volume brings research on China into conversation with the traditions and concerns of peasant studies scholarship. It provides both an introduction to those unfamiliar with Chinese politics, as well as in-depth, new research for experts in the field. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Author : Philip C. Huang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9576381819

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The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China by Philip C. Huang Pdf

Author : Evelyn Sakakida Rawski
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015046333376

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Agricultural Change and the Peasant Economy of South China by Evelyn Sakakida Rawski Pdf

This book focuses on two prvinces of south China -- sixteenth-centiury Fukien, a coastal province, and eighteenth-century Hunana, an interior province -- to illustrate the cuases and effects of agricultural change in the context of historical transformations in commerce. It examines such topics and transport and georgraphical constraints on agricultural development, the ecology of rice culture, and the economic significance of various forms of land tenure.

Author : 陈锡文编著,李曼译
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9787119114309

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读懂中国农业农村农民（英文） by 陈锡文编著,李曼译 Pdf

读懂中国农业、农村和农民，是读懂中国历史和文化的起点，也是理解当代中国经济社会现状的逻辑原点。某种程度上讲，中国的农业、农村、农民问题是一个宏大的历史和现实命题。纵向看，农业、农村和农民问题贯穿了整个中国历史发展的全过程，土地制度、税赋制度、国家治理制度的变迁演化，农业生产和工程技术的发明发展、中国特色人文精神的脉络和传承等，都与中国农业、农村的发展演变有着千丝万缕的联系。横向看，当代的农业、农村、农民问题则涉及今日中国政治、经济、社会、文化的方方面面，也是整个中国国情现状、社会变迁和人们生活方式演变的缩影。因此，了解中国农村、农民，对理解中国的政治、经济、社会、文化演进有着不可替代的作用，而了解中国农村、农民，就必须从历史着眼，观察现实，这样才能把握中国农业农村发展的要素和内核。

Author : Xu Yong
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000643664

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Nationalisation, Peasantry and Rural Integration in China II by Xu Yong Pdf

This two-volume set examines the process of rural integration in modern China. In short, this is how the state penetrates the countryside and transforms the rural population, thus consolidating the foundation of modern state governance. Drawing on contemporary examples of state integration while observing the background of traditional China, this book systematically examines the entire process of rural reconstruction of China over the course of the 100 years since the late Qing Dynasty. In addition, the book discusses the special characteristics of each period and current societal trends in the Chinese countryside. This volume explores the following aspects of contemporary state integration: economic, fiscal, cultural, social, lifestyle, and technological. The book will be an essential reading for scholars and students in Chinese Studies, Political Science, Rural Studies, and those who are interested in the rural reconstruction of China in general.

Author : Jean C. Oi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520076372

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State and Peasant in Contemporary China by Jean C. Oi Pdf

This is a study of peasant-state relations and village politics as they have evolved in response to the state's attempts to control the division of the harvest and extract the state-defined surplus. To provide the reader with a clearer sense of the evolution of peasant-state relations over almost a forty-year period and to highlight the dramatic changes that have taken place since 1978,1 have divided my analysis into two parts: Chapters 2 through 7 are on Maoist China, and chapters 8 and 9 are on post-Mao China. The first part examines the state's grain policies and patterns of local politics that emerged during the highly collectivized Maoist period, when the state closed free grain markets and established the system of unified purchase and sales (tonggou tongxiao). The second part describes the new methods for the production and division of the harvest after 1978, when the government decollectivized agriculture and abolished its unified procurement program.