Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture

✍ Scribed by Jacob Eyferth, Peter Ho, Eduard Vermeer

• Publisher: Frank Cass
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 295
• Series: Library of Peasant Studies
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

THE LIBRARY OF PEASANT STUDIES
Contents
Acknowledgements
Explanatory Notes
Introduction: The Opening-Up of China’s Countryside
FIGURE 1 ADMINISTRATION MAP OF CHINA
Regional Differences in Chinese Agriculture: Results from the 1997 First National Agricultural Census
FIGURE 2 CHINA: GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT PER CAPITA 1996 (YUAN)
FIGURE 3 CHINESE PROVINCES AND MUNICIPALITIES: PERSONS ENGAGED IN AGRICULTURE (%) AND GDP PER CAPITA
FIGURE 4 PERSONS ENGAGED IN AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES (%) AND HOUSEHOLD DIMENSIONS (PERSONS PER HOUSEHOLD)
FIGURE 5 AVERAGE NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED PER HOUSEHOLD
FIGURE 7 MAIN VARIABLES FOR CHINESE COUNTIES THE COUNTIES ARE RANKED BY VARIABLE (a)
Rethinking the Peasant Burden: Evidence from a Chinese Village
How Not to Industrialize: Observations from a Village in Sichuan
Determinants of Income from Wages in Rural Wuxi and Baoding: A Survey of 22 Villages
TABLE 5 AVERAGE WAGE EARNINGS BY POSITION IN HOUSEHOLD, WUXI/XISHAN
TABLE 9 AVERAGE WAGE EARNINGS IN TWO AGE GROUPS, BY EDUCATION (wages of 3,000 yuan and above only)
TABLE 13 RURAL WUXI AVERAGE WAGE EARNINGS IN 1997, BY POLITICAL AFFILIATION (30 years and above)
The Wasteland Auction Policy in Northwest China: Solving Environmental Degradation and Rural Poverty?
TABLE 2 WHAT ARE THE PROHIBITIONS TO THE USE OF WASTELAND? (Pengyang sample, n=43)
TABLE 3 WHAT RIGHTS ARE INCLUDED IN THE WASTELAND CONTRACT? (Guyuan sample; n=47)
Ningxia’s Third Road to Rural Development: Resettlement Schemes as a Last Means to Poverty Reduction?
TABLE 1 POPULATION DENSITY AND ARABLE LAND PER CAPITA IN NINGXIA
TABLE 2 RURAL NET INCOME PER CAPITA IN NINGXIA (IN RMB)
A Comparative Study of Projection Models on China’s Food Economy
FIGURE 4 THE FRAMEWORK OF THE USDA MODEL
FIGURE 7 FRAMEWORK OF THE MITCHELL MODEL
APPENDIX 1 AREA CHANGES OF CULTIVATED LAND IN CHINA (1,000 HA)
Social Welfare in Rural China
FIGURE 2 WELFARE PRODUCTION IN PRIVATE HOUSEHOLDS
Gender Difference in Inheritance Rights: Observations from a Chinese Village
Local State Corporatism and Private Business
Abstracts
Author Index
Subject Index