Bringing Agriculture Back In: The Central Place of Agrarian Change in Rural China Studies

• Main Authors: ZHANG, Qian Forrest, OYA, Carlos, YE, Jingzhong
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Agricultural modernization; Agrarian change; China; Rural development; Reform; Agricultural and Resource Economics; Asian Studies; Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1815; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3072/viewcontent/Zhang_et_al_2015_Journal_of_Agrarian_Change.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Since the mid-2000s, rural development and politics in China has entered a new phase that revolves around what the central government calls ‘agricultural modernization’. Transforming the once-dominant smallholding, family-based agriculture has become a focal point of the government's programme...