On changes in Rural China: The Rise of Agrarian Capitalism and Dissolution of the Peasantry in Contemporary China

• Main Authors: ZHANG, Forrest, DONALDSON, John A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: Agriculture; farming; Yunnan; China; capitalism; entrepreneurs; farmers; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Resource Economics; Asian Studies; Rural Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/553; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1552/viewcontent/agrariancapitalism.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

For decades, Mr. Hong and his family have toiled the ground of Dounan Village, an area of Yunnan Province that became well-known throughout China for the quality of its fresh vegetables. While Hong and his neighbors have, since the early 1980s, concentrated on the small plot of land that the state a...