The Land Question in China: Agrarian Capitalism, Industrious Revolution, and East Asian Development

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of
Contents
List of illustrations
	Figures
	Tables
Preface
Introduction
	Industrious revolution, agrarian capitalism, and argument of the book
	State, market, and community: conditions for an industrious revolution
	The East Asian development path and Chinese experience
	Notes
Part I:
Historical perspective
	Chapter 1: The Ming–Qing transition, land, and China’s first industrious revolution
		Changing status of smallholders: 1550–1800
			Expanding serfdom and elite power in the late Ming dynasty
			Land relations and the market in the eighteenth century
		1.2 The role of the Qing state
			Political will
			State capacity
			Supportive policies for smallholders
		The unraveling and legacy of China’s first industrious revolution
		Notes
	Chapter 2: Socialism, market reform, and the long road to the second industrious revolution
		Land reform, collectivization, and market reform
		Rural industry in Wujin: 1949–90
		Agriculture and environment in Aohan
		Socialism and the industrious revolution
			Socialist developmental state
			Cadres and collective organizations
		Market, community, and the importance of land
			Community-based market dynamics
			Land rights and small-scale farming
		Notes
Part II:
Undermining forces
	Chapter 3: Urban bias and rural crisis: The land question beyond the countryside
		Impacts of urban bias on rural areas in the hinterland
			Growing taxes and fees
			Insufficient infrastructure investment
			Drying up of rural credit
			Marketization of education and health care
		Underuse of farmland and rise of a migration-dependent economy
		From privatization to land expropriation: rural enterprises in Wujin
		Urbanization, landless peasants, and land struggles
		Notes
	Chapter 4: The rise of agrarian capitalism and the future of the industrious revolution
		Agricultural modernization and the problematization of “small”
		Grain security: the Sword of Damocles
		Building the new socialist countryside, but for whom?
		Land transfer and the discourse of “who will cultivate the land?”
		The rise of agrarian capitalism and the future of the industrious revolution
		Notes
Part III:
Comparative perspective
	Chapter 5: South Africa in comparison: Dispossession, agrarian capitalism, and struggles for land
		Successive dispossessions: colonialism, segregation, and apartheid
		Agrarian capitalism and the surplus population
		Struggles for land: land reform, precarious livelihood, and protest
		Conclusion: the land question in South Africa and China
		Notes
	Chapter 6: Land, welfare, and the East Asian development path revisited
		Agrarian reform and industrial transformation
		Economic slowdown and the rising precarity
		The productivist welfare regime and the crisis of welfare
		Land, welfare, and livelihood security
		China and East Asian development
		Notes
	Conclusion
		The Chinese land question in world-historical perspective
		Multifunctionality of land and varieties of industrious revolution
		Rural revitalization: a new East Asian development path?
Appendix: List of key land policy documents since the market reform
	Rural land policy documents
	Urban land policy documents
References
Index