1st Edition
The Land Question in China Agrarian Capitalism, Industrious Revolution, and East Asian Development
By Shaohua Zhan
Copyright 2019
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
190 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book interrogates the inevitability and practicability of full-scale, land-intensive capitalist agriculture in China, whilst analyzing the labor-intensive industrious revolution as an alternative rural development path. It presents a critical account of the recent rise of agrarian capitalism as a force that would undermine hundreds of millions of people's livelihoods in the populous... Read more
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
Biography
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.
