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Book SynopsisHow can we account for the durability of subsistence farming in China despite six centuries of vigorous commercialization from 1350 to 1950 and three decades of collectivization between 1950 to 1980? Here, scholars attempt to answer this question.
Trade Review'Huang's book is extraordinarily rich, and I believe it to be the best sustained study of rural north China yet written.'Jonathan Spence, The New York Review of Books
Table of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. To 1949: 2. The Yangzi Delta ecosystem; 3. Commercialization and family production; 4. Commercialization and managerial agriculture; 5. Commercialization and involutionary growth; 6. Peasants and markets; 7. Imperialism, urban development, and rural involution; 8. Two kinds of village communities; Part II. After 1949: 9. restructuring the old political economy; 10. Collective, family, and sideline production; 11. Growth versus development in agriculture; 12. Rural industrialization; 13. Capitalism versus socialism in rural development; 14. Peasant-worker villages; Part III. Conclusion: 15. A summing up; 16. Some speculations; Appendixes; References; Character list; Index.
