Industrialisation And Rural Livelihoods In China

Author : Susanne Lingohr-Wolf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136951138

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Industrialisation and Rural Livelihoods in China by Susanne Lingohr-Wolf Pdf

Since the mid-1990s, "agricultural industrialisation" (AI) has been advocated in China to promote rural development by integrating agriculture with the post-harvest sectors such as agro-processing and marketing. Large-scale "Dragon head enterprises" (DHEs) and various forms of rural household associations (RAs) have been particularly promoted as AI organisational models. Drawing on the case study of the sweet potato sector in Sichuan Province, this book investigates their impact on rural livelihoods. Lingohr-Wolf analyses the forms of household linkages with AI organisations, the underlying household incentives to diversify both labour and agricultural production towards AI, and the developmental benefits and potential constraints that shape such rural involvement. By taking a rural household perspective on livelihood diversification, the analysis provides new insights into the links between rural household involvement in AI and the achievement of development objectives. It reveals that although there are significant beneficial effects, a number of challenges, such as entry barriers and imbalances in bargaining power, still need to be addressed to improve the positive impact of AI for rural development in China. As the first authoritative analysis of AI in China, this book is an essential read for scholars interested in economic development in China and rural development and agricultural economics more generally.

Author : Heather Xiaoquan Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135012656

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Rural Livelihoods in China by Heather Xiaoquan Zhang Pdf

In recent decades, China has undergone rapid economic growth, industrialisation and urbanisation concomitant with deep and extensive structural and social change, profoundly reshaping the country’s development landscape and urban-rural relationships. This book applies livelihoods approaches to deepen our understanding of the changes and continuities related to rural livelihoods within the wider context of political economy of development in post-socialist China, bridging the urban and rural scenarios and probing the local, national and global dynamics that have impacted on livelihood, in particular its mobility, security and sustainability. Presenting theoretically informed and empirically grounded research by leading scholars from across the world, this book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on issues central to rural livelihoods, development, welfare and well-being. It documents and analyses the processes and consequences of change, focusing on social protection of mobile livelihoods, particularly rural migrants’ citizenship rights in the city, and the environmental, social and political aspects of sustainability in the countryside. This book contributes to the current scholarly and policy debates, and is among the first attempts to critically reflect on China’s market transition and the associated pathways to change. It will be of interest to students in international development studies, China studies, social policy, public health, political science, and environmental studies at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as academics, policy makers and practitioners who are concerned with China’s human and social development in general, and agriculture and rural livelihoods in particular.

Author : Dong Fureng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349224425

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Industrialization and China’s Rural Modernization by Dong Fureng Pdf

This book analyses China's historical experience of industrialization. It adopts a critical stance towards China's development strategy and proposes an alternative approach, outlining its main features. Due to the great importance and special problems of China's rural modernization, special attention is devoted to analysis of the rural sector. Many of China's rural socio-economic problems are similar to those encountered in other developing countries. It is intended that the book will increase understanding of China's socio-economic development as well as contributing to wider debates in the theory of economic development.

Author : Jon Sigurdson
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674780728

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Rural Industrialization in China by Jon Sigurdson Pdf

Small-scale industries in rural areas in China are today an essential element of regional development programs. This monograph analyzes two main development strategies: technology choices in a number of industrial sectors and the integrated rural development strategy.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195208226

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China's Rural Industry by World Bank Pdf

This collection of papers presented at an international conference in 1987 provides a comprehensive analysis of China's booming rural non-state industrial sector, both collective and private.

Author : Chris Bramall,Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese Studies Chris Bramall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199275939

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The Industrialization of Rural China by Chris Bramall,Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese Studies Chris Bramall Pdf

'The Industrialization of Rural China' highlights the economic & social achievements of the Maoist regime. Using a constructed dataset covering China's 2000 plus counties & complemented by a detailed econometric study of county-level industrialization in the provinces of Sichuan, Guangdong & Jiangsu, the author shows that history mattered.

Author : S. Cheng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230501713

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China's Rural Industrialization Policy by S. Cheng Pdf

This book is a comprehensive and positive study of the special pattern of China's industrialization and economic development, covering all of the relevant, main policies (more than one hundred) from 1949 to the twenty-first century.

Author : Norman Long,Jingzhong Ye,Yihuan Wang
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Wang Xianming
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Jon Sigurdson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Rural development
ISBN : OCLC:32495147

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Rural Industrialization in China by Jon Sigurdson Pdf

Author : Ashwani Saith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : China
ISBN : IND:30000044902173

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Chinese Rural Industrialisation by Ashwani Saith Pdf

Author : Fureng Dong
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : China
ISBN : 0312084072

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Industrialization and China's Rural Modernization by Fureng Dong Pdf

Author : Kate Xiao Zhou
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996-04-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018318084

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How The Farmers Changed China by Kate Xiao Zhou Pdf

Chinese farmers comprise one fifth of the world's population. This book contends that they have been the driving force behind their country's remarkable economic growth and social change over the past 15 years, guided by their own interests rather than by directives from Beijing.

Author : Rizwanul Islam,Jin Hehui
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : WISC:89047142948

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Rural Industrialisation by Rizwanul Islam,Jin Hehui Pdf

Explores the relationship between rural industrialization and rural welfare from 1978 to 1990.

Author : Shaohua Zhan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351839464

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The Land Question in China by Shaohua Zhan Pdf

This book interrogates the inevitability and practicability of full-scale, land-intensive capitalist agriculture in China, whilst analyzing the labor-intensive industrious revolution as an alternative rural development path. It presents a critical account of the recent rise of agrarian capitalism as a force that would undermine hundreds of millions of people's livelihoods in the populous country. The Land Question in China traces the roots of the industrious revolution in China back to the eighteenth century, drawing comparisons between contemporary rural development and economic prosperity in the mid-Qing dynasty. In the context of neoliberal restructuring, it argues that vigorous rural development with broad access to land offers a solution to mitigate precarious urban employment and population pressure, while the transfer of land from villagers to large producers and urban investors will exacerbate these problems. Comparisons with South Africa and the East Asian economies of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan further illustrate this and help to develop a new interpretation of the industrious revolution and its contemporary relevance. Providing a critical examination of the "new land reform" in China from a world historical perspective, this book will be useful to students and scholars of sociology, economics, and development, as well as Chinese Studies.