China’s Agrarian Reform and the Privatization of Land: A Contrarian View

• Main Authors: ZHANG, Qian Forrest, DONALDSON, John A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Land ownership; China; agricultural industry; agriculture and state; Agricultural and Resource Economics; Asian Studies; Rural Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1039; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2294/viewcontent/auto_convert.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Many media and scholars outside China are advocating for the privatization of land ownership in China, claiming it to be a necessary step before China can transform its agriculture into large-scale, market-oriented and technology-intensive modern agriculture. Chinese scholars advocating land privati...