China's economy : rural reform and agricultural development / editor, Deng Zhenglai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deng, Zhenglai.

Series:

Series on developing China ; v. 1.

Series on developing China, 1793-9976 ; v. 1

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Economic aspects--China.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Economic aspects.

China.

China--Economic conditions.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackkensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2009]

Summary:

Series on Developing China-Translated Research from China contains a collection of the most outstanding academic articles written by prestigious Chinese scholars of humanities and social sciences within the last 30 years. All the contributors are native Chinese scholars who have experienced China's dramatic changes by themselves. In the past, research done by Chinese scholars has not been adequately represented in English due to the language barrier. In this series, all the volumes are quality works translated from Chinese to English. This series will benefit international readers interested in China's reform process and the development of Chinese humanities and social sciences.

This series is jointly launched by World Scientific Co Pte Ltd and Truth & Wisdom Press, Shanghai Century Publishing Company Ltd. All the volumes have Chinese version published by Shanghai Century.

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 ôencircling the cities from the rural areasö, Chinese reforms were likewise started in promoting the household contract responsibility system in the rural areas - 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 ôgold mineö, 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. Book jacket.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9814291854

9789814291859

OCLC:

456667995