Continuity and Change in China's Rural Development: Collective and Reform Eras in Perspective

By Louis Putterman

With the ascendancy of Deng Xiaoping in 1978, China began a program of agricultural reform intended to increase productivity. This detailed study examines what the author sees as the major changes which moved the sector from a centrally planned to a more market-oriented system--replacement of collective teams with household farming, an increase of free markets for rural products, an increased state price for agricultural products, and greater freedom to expand off-farm activities--changes in the economic structure which facilitated greater productivity. It is unique in its focus on a single township, providing new data on the effects of reform at the village level.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195078721
• ISBN13: 9780195078725
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"