Comparing local models of Agrarian transition in China

• Main Authors: ZHANG, Forrest Q., DONALDSON, John A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: agrarian transition; agribusiness; family farming; cooperatives; capitalism; China; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Resource Economics; Asian Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2060; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3317&context=soss_research
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The development of markets and the penetration of capital into agriculture have started theagrarian transition in rural China, which is transforming smallholding, household-basedagriculture into various forms of capitalistic production. This raises again in a new historicaland social context the lon...