Economic trends in Chinese agriculture : the impact of post-Mao reforms
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Economic trends in Chinese agriculture : the impact of post-Mao reforms
(Studies on contemporary China)
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1993
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Note
"A memorial volume in honour of Kenneth Richard Walker, 1932-1989."
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In 1988 an important chapter in Chinese agricultural development ended, following a series of reforms which began in the later 1970s. This book provides a comprehensive summary of those developments. During the initial period of reform, levels of output, income and consumption in the countryside had increased, but from the mid-1980s, agricultural stagnation set in and by the close of the decade the agricultural sector was beset by confusion. Even the reparcelling of collective farmland, which had epitomized the reformist thrust of policy in the countryside, threatened to give way to the renewed imposition of administrative controls from above. This volume surveys different aspect of the decade of reform, while assessing its historical significance. It examines policy, planning, pricing, agricultural organization, trends in output and crop production, the livestock sector, food consumption and peasant incomes, rural employment, trends, technology and trade.
In addition to reviewing the major changes in Chinese agriculture in the decade of economic reforms, the book consistently points to the fundamental policy dilemma encountered by the present Chinese leadership whether or not to decentralize further or even privatize agricultural production. This book should be of interest to academic economists interested in China; advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying the Chinese economy, political and economic development, and comparative economic systems; and government officials and businesmen dealing with China.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Robert Ash: Agricultural policy under the impact of reform
- Terry Sicular: Ten years of reform: Progress and setbacks in agricultural planning and price
- Reeitsu Kojima: Agricultural organization: New forms, new contradictions
- Robert Michael Field: Trends in the value of agricultural output, 1978-1988
- Kenneth R. Walker: Trends in crop production
- Francis C. Tuan: The livestock sector
- Y.Y. Kueh: Food consumption and peasant incomes
- Jeffrey R. Taylor: Rural employment trends in China and the legacy of surplus labour, 1978-1989
- Bruce Stone: Basic agricultural technology under reform
- Joseph C.H. Chai: Factors influencing China's agricultural trade.
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