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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457684803321

Titolo

Rural development in transitional China : the new agriculture / / edited by Peter Ho, Jacob Eyferth, Eduard B. Vermeer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Frank Cass, , 2004

ISBN

9786610226429

1-135-75707-0

1-280-22642-0

0-203-49929-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Collana

The library of peasant studies

Altri autori (Persone)

HoPeter <1968->

EyferthJan Jacob Karl <1962->

VermeerE. B (Eduard B.)

Disciplina

330.951/009173/4

Soggetti

Agriculture - Economic aspects - China

Rural development - China

Peasants - China

Electronic books.

China Rural conditions Congresses

China Economic conditions Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

The opening-up of China's countryside / Jacob Eyferth, Peter Ho, and Eduard B. Vermeer -- Regional differences in Chinese agriculture : results from the 1997 first National Agricultural Census / Roberto Fanfani and Christina Brasili -- Rethinking the peasant burden : evidence from a Chinese village / Li Xiande -- How not to industrialize : observations from a village in Sichuan / Jacob Eyferth -- Determinants of income from wages in rural Wuxi and Baoding : a survey of 22 villages / Eduard B. Vermeer -- The wasteland auction policy in northwest China : solving environmental degradation and rural poverty / Peter Ho -- Ningxia's third road to rural development : resettlement schemes as a last means to poverty reduction? / Rita Merkle -- A comparative study of projection models on China's food economy /



Zhang Xiaoyong -- Social welfare in rural China / Jutta Hebel -- Gender difference in inheritance rights : observations from a Chinese village / Heather Xiaoquan Zhang -- Local state corporatism and private business / Maria Edin -- Development and environment : attitudes among small town residents in China / Ian Bradbury and Richard Kirkby.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers an authoritative and in-depth analysis of the social and economic changes that have swept through the Chinese countryside in the last twenty years.