From peasants to farmers: Peasant differentiation, labor regimes, and land-rights institutions in China's agrarian transition

• Main Authors: ZHANG, Q. Forrest, DONALDSON, John A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: China; peasants; agrarian transition; capitalism; land rights; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Resource Economics; Asian Studies; Rural Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2390; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3647/viewcontent/Peasants_to_Farmers_2010.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The development of factor markets has opened Chinese agriculture for the penetration of capitalism. This new round of rural transformation—China’s agrarian transition— raises the agrarian question in the Chinese context. This study investigates how capitalist forms and relations of production transf...