Shaohua Zhan

The Land Question in China

Agrarian Capitalism, Industrious Revolution, and East Asian Development

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the inevitability of full-scale, land-intensive capitalist agriculture in China, whilst analysing the labour-intensive path of the industrious revolution. Exploring these two rural development paths, it presents a detailed account of the rise of agrarian capitalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9780367662653
• ISBN-10: 0367662655
• Artikelnr.: 60017955

Autorenporträt

Shaohua Zhan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include Chinese political economy, land politics, food security, and migration.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Land
Ming-Qing Transition
and the First Industrious Revolution 2. Socialism
Market Reform
and Long Road to the Second Industrious Revolution 3. Urban Bias and Rural Crisis: the Land Question beyond the Countryside 4. Rise of Agrarian Capitalism and Future of the Industrious Revolution 5. South Africa in Comparison: Dispossession
Agrarian Capitalism
and Struggles for Land 6. Land
Welfare
and the East Asian Development Path Revisited Conclusion