Political dynamics in land commodification: Commodifying rural land development rights in Chengdu, China

• Main Authors: ZHANG, Qian Forrest, WU, Jianling
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Land commodification; Transfer of development rights (TDR); Land-use regulation; Dispossession; Rural reconstruction; Capitalism; Asian Studies; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration; Rural Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2394; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3651/viewcontent/Political_dynamics_in_land_commodification_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Commodification of land is at the forefront of the re-casting of rural China by the spread of capitalism. This study examines a market-based program of land development rights trading in Chengdu, China. The program was made possible by a change in the central government’s land-use regulation that sh...