Class differentiation in rural China: Dynamics of accumulation, commodification and state intervention

• Main Author: ZHANG, Forrest Qian
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Accumulation; Capitalism; China; Class differentiation; Commodification; State intervention; Asian Studies; Inequality and Stratification; Rural Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2458; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3715/viewcontent/2015_JAC_Class_differentiation_pre_publication.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper develops a classification of the emerging agrarian class positions in China today. Using an instrument based on rural households' combination of market positions in four markets – land, labour, means of production and product – I identify five agrarian classes: the capitalist employe...