Agricultural reform and rural transformation in China since 1949 / / edited by Thomas DuBois, Huaiyin Li.

• TeilnehmendeR: DuBois, Thomas David, 1969-; Li, Huaiyin.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016]
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Studies of Contemporary China 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

Since its founding, the government of the People's Republic of China has strived to transform rural production, the theme of this volume of History of Contemporary China. Fourteen articles translated from the Chinese journal Contemporary History (Dangdai Zhongguo shi yanjiu) offer both empirical account and theoretical analysis of a broad range of historical events and issues, such as the guiding policy framework of the “three rural issues,” the causes and consequences of the deep plowing movement and the development of public canteens during the Great Leap Forward, child care, enterprises and collectives, and private lending in the post-Mao era, and the changing dynamics of interregional flows of goods and people throughout the second half of the 20th century. These studies shed light on the historical origins of some of the agricultural and rural problems in China today.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Thomas DuBois and Huaiyin Li -- Introduction: Chinese Agriculture and Rural Development Reexamined: Western and Chinese Perspectives / Huaiyin Li and Thomas DuBois -- The Origins and Development of China’s “Three Rural Issues” / Lu Xueyi -- The Scale and Distribution of New Rich Peasants after the People’s Republic of China’s Land Reforms / Su Shaozhi -- The Deep Plowing Movement of the “Great Leap Forward” / Zhu Xianling , Ding Zhaojun and Hu Huakai -- A Study of the Construction of Terraced Fields in Liulin County, Shanxi Province in the Era of Collectivization / Hao Ping -- Historical Observations Regarding the Large-scale Establishment of Rural Public Canteens in Hebei Province / Li Chunfeng -- From Busy-Season Childcare Centers to Full-scale Kindergartens—Rural Childcare Organizations in Shanxi Province in the 1950's / Han Xiaoli -- Restitution Paid by Rural People’s Cooperatives in the 1960's—An Inquiry Focused on Jiangsu Province / Wang Yugui -- Transformations to Commune and Brigade Enterprises and the Rise of Rural Private Enterprises in Gaoyang County, Hebei Province in the Early Days of Reform and Opening / Feng Xiaohong -- Analysis of the Construction of Village Collective Economic Organizations and Related Issues in Changshu City—Four Case Studies / Zheng Yougui -- The History of Rural Private Lending in Hubei Province, 1952–1954 / Su Shaozhi and Chang Mingming -- The South-to-North and North-to-South Flows of Grains and Cereals—Changes to Directions and Quantities of Flows of Grains and Cereals between North and South in Contemporary China / Zheng Yougui , Ou Weizhong , Kuang Chanjuan and Jiao Hongpo -- Three Historic Changes to Inter-regional Grain Flows in the People’s Republic of China and Their Causes / Qu Shang and Su Shaozhi -- Rural Population Flows in the Era of Collectivization—A Study of the Border Region between Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong Provinces / You Haihua -- A Review of Research on the State Monopoly / Wang Danli -- Index / Thomas DuBois and Huaiyin Li.