Title: Freeing China's farmers
Subtitle: rural restructuring in the reform era
First published: 1997
Description: A comprehensive analysis of China's rural reforms, this book links local experiences to national policy, showing the dynamic tension in the reform process among state policy, local cadre power and self-interest, and the peasants' search for economic growth.

Twelve articles, ranging from personal on-site observations of early resistance to reform by suburban cadres and peasants in Nanjing to field research in export-oriented communities on the Yangzi River in 1991-92, cover key topics: the responsibility system, privatization and changing property rights, industrialization, social conflict, cadre corruption, urban-rural relations, conflict over land, rural urbanization, and the impact of globalization.
Subjects: Rural conditions, Land reform, Rural development, China, rural conditions, China, social life and customs, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Sociology, Rural, Plattelandsontwikkeling, Landhervormingen, Agrarreform, Geschichte, Ländlicher Raum, Strukturwandel, Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Places: China
LC classification: HN733.5 .Z94 1997