Planning in Chinese Agriculture; Socialization and the Private Sector,1956-1962
Author: Kenneth R. Walker
Publisher: London : Cass
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 109
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Author: Kenneth R. Walker
Publisher: London : Cass
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 109
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-23
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1136923845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1965. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Kenneth Richard Walker
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorical study of agricultural policy in China from 1956 to 1962. Rural development, agrarian reform, rural cooperatives and finally communal farms were stressed. Failure brought decentralization, a wage policy to link wages to production, and freedom of the private sector for agricultural products and animal production (pigs). Statistical tables. 1 map. Bibliography pp. 102-105.
Author: Kenneth R. Walker
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 109
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kenneth R. Walker
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780714612560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1965. This short monograph is the first result of the author's decision in 1959 to study the Chinese economy. This came about as they were appointed to join a group of economists with the shared goal of examining the modern problems of Asian countries. The aim of the essay is to outline one of the many real problems encountered by the Chinese Government in carrying through a social and economic revolution in the countryside.
Author: Kenneth R. Walker
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 109
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan Unger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-09-16
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1315292033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the past quarter century Jonathan Unger has interviewed farmers and rural officials from various parts of China in order to track the extraordinary changes that have swept the countryside from the Maoist era through the Deng era to the present day. A leading specialist on rural China, Professor Unger presents a vivid picture of life in rural areas during the Maoist revolution, and then after the post-Mao disbandment of the collectives. This is a story of unexpected continuities amidst enormous change. Unger describes how rural administrations retain Mao-era characteristics - despite the major shifts that have occurred in the economic and social hierarchies of villages as collectivization and "class struggle" gave way to the slogan "to get rich is glorious." A chapter explores the private entrepreneurship that has blossomed in the prosperous parts of the countryside. Another focuses on the tensions and exploitation that have arisen as vast numbers of migrant laborers from poor districts have poured into richer ones. Another, based on five months of travel by jeep into impoverished villages in the interior, describes the dilemmas of under-development still faced by many tens of millions of farmers, and the ways in which government policies have inadvertently hurt their livelihoods.
Author: Kenneth Richard Walker
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Published: 1965
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Zweig
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780674011755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring and after the Cultural Revolution, radical leaders in the Chinese Communist Party tried to mobilize rural society for socioeconomic and political changes and move rural China to even higher stages of collectivism. David Zweig argues that because advocates of agrarian radicalism formed a minority group within China's central leadership, they acted in opposition to the dominant moderate forces and resorted to alternative strategies to mobilize support for their unofficial policies. The limited institutionalization of the system allowed the radicals to promote their principles through "policy winds," speeches generated by newspaper articles, networks of political allies, and organized visits; they also linked their policies to ongoing political and economic campaigns. In spite of this radical ideology and frequent upheavals in the countryside, Zweig finds that Chinese peasants had no ideological affinity for Mao's theory of the continuing revolution and reacted to each policy change on the basis of how it affected their personal, family, or collective interests. Despite intense propaganda, cadres adjusted the impact of these radical policies so that the peasants' conservative mindset, entrepreneurial spirit, and desire to improve their own lot remained intact. Zweig examines the local realities of the radicals' program by describing the results of specific policies; he discriminates among the responses of officials at different bureaucratic levels, peasants of varying income levels and family structures, and villages with specific geographic and socioeconomic characteristics. He draws on his own field research in Chinese villages and interviews with Chinese college students and their friends who had lived in the countryside and emigrès in Hong Kong who had lived and worked in rural China.
Author: Y. Y. Kueh
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1995-05-18
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 019158522X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina is particularly dependent upon her agricultural surplus for financing her ambitious industrialization programme, but the performance of the agricultural sector of the economy has been extremely unstable throughout the twentieth century. Professor Kueh provides a scholarly and authoritative account of this vital part of the Chinese economy during the period 1931-1990, based upon detailed statistical data and other sources of material. Professor Kueh has achieved a unique analysis of the interrelationships between natural, economic, and institutional factors, which lie at the heart of China's agricultural performance. He describes policy changes, technological advances, and natural factors such as climactic conditions, and distinguishes the effect of each factor in the varying level of agricultural production. The strength of this book lies not only in its collection and analysis of data but in the innovative methodological process used, including the construction of a `weather index', which will be invaluable not only for Chinese studies scholars but also for those wishing to undertake similar work for other countries.