The places of primitive accumulation in rural China

Economic Geography

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 395-421

  Webber, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capitalism; China; Dispossession; Primitive accumulation; Rural areas; Teleology

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; MODERNIZATION; RURAL SOCIETY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 58149377702     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2008.00002.x     Document Type: Article

References (108)

1. Althusser, L. 1971. Ideology and ideological state apparatuses (notes towards an investigation). In L. Althusser, Lenin and philosophy and other essays, trans. B. Brewster, 127-86. New York. Monthly Review Press.
2. Andreasson, S. 2006. Stand and deliver: Private property and the Politics of global dispossession. Political Studies 54:3-22.
3. Arrighi, G. 2004. Spatial and other "fixes" of historical capitalism.Journal of World-Systems Research 10:527-39.
4. Asian Development Bank. 2003. Water for all: The water policy of the Asian Development Bank. Manila: Asian Development Bank.
5. Asian Trails. 2005. Yunnan twelve most asked questions. Available online: http://www.asiantrails.info/index.cfm?menuid=252
6. Be, D., and Zhu, N. 1989. Market influence and industrial structure. In China rural industry: Structure, development and reform, ed. Q. S. Lin and W. Berts, 103-41. Beijing: Beijing Economy Science Press.
7. Bernstein, H. 2004. "Changing before our very eyes": Agrarian questions and the politics of land in capitalism today. Journal of Agrarian Change 4:190-225.
8. Bovingdon, G. 2002. The not-so-silent majority: Uyghur resistance to Han rule in Xinjiang. Modern China 28:39-78.
9. Bovingdon, G.. 2004. Autonomy in Xinjiang: Han nationalist imperatives and Uyghur discontent. Available online: http:// www.eastwestcenter.org/stored/pdfs/PSO11.pdf
10. Bramall, C. 1990. The Wenzhou "miracle": An assessment. In Market forces in China: Competition and small business - The Wenzhou debate, ed. P. Nolan and F. Dong, 43-76. London: Zed Books.
11. Byrd, W.A., and Lin, Q. S. 1990. China's rural industry: Structure, development and reform. New York: Oxford University Press.
12. Chen, C.-J. J. 2005. The path of Chinese privatisation: A case study of village enterprises in southern Jiangsu. Corporate Governance 13:72-80.
13. Chen, R. M. 1990. A preliminary analysis of the "big labour-hiring households." In Market forces in China: Competition and small business - The Wenzhou debate, ed. P. Nolan and F. Dong, 140-55. London: Zed Books.
14. China Infinity. 2004. Yunnan map. Available online: http:// www.chinainfinity.com/webpages/provinces/yunnan/yn_maps/yunnanmap.htm
15. China National Tourism Administration.2002.Available online: http:// en.cnta.gov.cn/lyen/gl/2_view.asp?id=519
16. Davin, D. 1999. Migration in China after 1949. In Internal migration in contemporary China, ed. D. Davin, 4-18. London: Macmillan.
17. de Angelis, M. 2001. Marx and primitive accumulation: The continuous character of capital's "enclosures." The Commoner N2:1-22. Available online: http://www.thecommoner.org
18. Dickinson, D., and Webber, M. 2007. Environmental resettlement and development, on the steppes of Inner Mongolia, PRC. Journal of Development Studies 43:537-61.
19. Ding, C. R. 2007. Policy and praxis of land acquisition in China. Land Use Policy 24:1-13.
20. Dong, F. R. 1990. The Wenzhou model for developing the rural commodity economy. In Market forces in China: Competition and small business - The Wenzhou debate, ed. P. Nolan and F. Dong, 77-96. London: Zed Books.
21. Edin, M. 2003. Local state corporatism and private business. Journal of Peasant Studies 30:278-95.
22. English, A. 2006. Greening the Chinese state: Reforming institutions, coordinating tiaokuai relations and managing nature reserves. Ph.D. thesis, University of Melbourne.
23. Fan, C. C. 2002. The elite, the natives, and the outsiders: Migration and labor market segmentation in urban China. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92:103-24.
24. Fan, C. C. 2003. Rural-urban migration and gender division of labor in transitional China. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 27:24-47.
25. Fei, X.T. 1986. Small towns in China: Functions, problems and prospects. Beijing: New World Press.
26. Gabriel, S. J. 2006. Chinese capitalism and the modernist vision. London and New York: Routledge.
27. Gibson-Graham, J. K. n.d. A diverse economy: Rethinking economy and economic representation. Available online: http:// www.communityeconomies.org/papers/rethink/rethink7diverse.pdf
28. Glassman, J. 2006. Primitive accumulation, accumulation by dispossession, accumulation by "extra-economic" means. Progress in Human Geography 30:608-25.
29. Granovetter, M. 1985. Economic action and social structure: The problem of embeddedness. American Journal of Sociology 91:481-510.
30. Gulick, J. 2004. Insurgent Chinese workers and peasants: The "weak link" in capitalist globalization and U.S. imperialism. InterActivist Info Exchange. Available online: http://info. interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=04/02/27 /1522245&mode=nested&tid=4
31. Hall, D. 2004. Smallholders and the spread of capitalism in rural Southeast Asia. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 45:401-14.
32. Han, S. S., and Pannell, C. 1999. The geography of privatisation in China, 1978-1996. Economic Geography 75:272-96.
33. Hart, G. 2006. Denaturalizing dispossession: Critical ethnography in the age of resurgent imperialism. Antipode 38:977-1004.
34. Harvey, D. 2003. The new imperialism. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
35. Harvey, D. 2006. Neo-liberalism as creative destruction. Geografiska Annaler 88B: 145-58.
36. He, J., and Chen, X. K. 2004. A dynamic computable general equilibrium model to calculate shadow prices of water resources: Implications for China. Available online: http://www.ecomod.net/conferences/iioa2004/ iioa2004_papers/424.pdf
37. Heynen, N., and Robbins, P. 2005. The neoliberalization of nature: Governance, privatization, enclosure and valuation. Capitalism Nature Socialism 16:5-8.
38. Hinton, W. 1990. The situation in the grasslands. In The great reversal: The privatization of China 1978-1989, ed. W. Hinton, 84-94. New York: Monthly Review Press.
39. Ho, S. P. S. 1994. Rural China in transition: Non-agricultural development in rural Jiangsu, 1978-1990. Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Press.
40. Ho, S. P. S.; Bowles, P.; and Dong, X.Y. 2003. "Letting go of the small": An analysis of the privatisation of rural enterprises in Jiangsu and Shandong. Journal of Development Studies 39:1-26.
41. Holmstrom, N., and Smith, R. S. 2000. The necessity of gangster capitalism: Primitive accumulation in Russia and China. Monthly Review 51:1-15.
42. Hopper, B. 2005. The face of development: Migration and (dis)integration in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. BA Honours thesis, School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Melbourne.
43. Hopper, B., and Webber, M. Forthcoming. Migration, modernisation and ethnic estrangement: Uyghur migration to Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, PRC. Inner Asia.
44. Huang, Y. 1998. Agricultural reform in China. Getting institutions right. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
45. Huer, C., and Gang, G. 2000. The plan for ecological construction and development in the grasslands of XiMeng. Pastoral Journal of Inner Mongolia 10:51-55.
46. Humphery, C., and Sneath, D., eds. 1996. Culture and environment in Inner Asia. Vol. I: The pastoral economy and the environment. Knapwell, Cambridgeshire, U.K.: White Horse Press.
47. Jia, D. 2003. Interview with Na Shun Wuli Ge, vice chairman of Party in XiMeng. In Inner Mongolia Political Consultative Conference, 2003:33-36.
48. Jin, B. 2001. Herdsmen moved to land of hope. Beijing: China Daily, 19 July.
49. Knight, J., and Song, L. 2005. Towards a labour market in China. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
50. Kurtz, M.J. 2000. Understanding peasant revolution: From concept to theory and case. Theory and Society 29:93-124.
51. Li, D. 1996. A theory of ambiguous property rights: The case of the Chinese non-state sector. Journal of Comparative Economics 23:1-9.
52. Li, G. Y. 2005. Keeping healthy life of rivers - A case study of the Yellow River. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Yellow River Forum Vol. 1:3-12. Zhengzhou: Yellow River Conservancy Press.
53. Li, H. B., and Rozelle, S. 2903. Privatizing rural China: Insider privatization, innovative contracts and the performance of township enterprises. The China Quarterly 176:981-1005.
54. Li, W. J.; Ali, S. H.; and Zhang, Q. 2007. Property rights and grassland degradation: A study of the Xilingol Pasture, Inner Mongolia, China. Journal of Environmental Management 85:461-70.
55. Lippit, V. D. 1996. China and Mexico: Comparable development strategies, disparate results. In Capital, the state, and late industrialisation: Comparative perspectives on the Pacific Rim, ed. J. Borrego, A. B. Alvarez, and K. S. Jomo, 129-50. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.
56. Liu, Y., and Dong, F. 2005. Countermeasures on water resources' sustainable utilization in China. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Yellow River Forum Vol. II:33-40. Zhengzhou: Yellow River Conservancy Press.
57. Luo, X. P. 1990. Ownership and status stratification. In China's rural industry: Structure development and reform, ed. W. A. Byrd and Q. Lin, 134-71. New York: Oxford University Press.
58. MacLeod, C. 2001. China: The "walking" dunes. South China Morning Post, 28 April.
59. Mandel, E. 1967. Marxist economic theory. New York: Monthly Review Press.
60. Mao, C. M. 2005. Analysis of the relation between the water price and water saving of the Yellow River. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Yellow River Forum Vol. V:366-71. Zhengzhou: Yellow River Conservancy Press.
61. Marx, K. [1867] 1981. Capital Vol. I. New York: International Publishers.
62. McCarthy, J. 2005. Commons as counterhegemonic projects. Capitalism Nature Socialism 16:9-24.
63. McDonald, B. 2006. From compensation to development: Involuntary resettlement in the People's Republic of China. Ph.D. thesis, University of Melbourne.
64. McMichael, P. 2006. Peasant prospects in the neoliberal age. New Political Economy 11:407-18.
65. Midnight Notes collective. 1990. Introduction to the new enclosures. Midnight Notes 10:1-15. Available online: http:// www.thecommoner.org
66. Mitchell, T. 2002. Rule of experts: Egypt, technopolitics, modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press.
67. Mitchell, T. 2008. Rethinking economy. Geoforum 39:1116-21.
68. Moneyhon, M. D. 2003. China's Great Western Development Project in Xinjiang: Economic palliative, or political Trojan horse? Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 31:491-523.
69. Moore, D. 2004. The second age of the Third World: From primitive accumulation to global public goods? Third World Quarterly 25:87-109.
70. Mudu Township. 2004. Mudu Statistical Yearbook 2003. Mudu: Mudu Township.
71. National Bureau of Statistics. Annual. Statistical Yearbook. Beijing: Statistics Press.
72. Nee, V. 1994. Institutional change and regional growth: An introduction. In The economic transformation of South China, ed. T. P. Lyons and V. Nee, 1-16. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell East Asia Program.
73. Nolan, P., and Dong, F., eds. 1990. Market forces in China: Competition and small business - The Wenzhou debate. London: Zed Books.
74. Perelman, M. 2001. The secret history of primitive accumulation and classical political economy. The Commoner N2:1-21.
75. Perelman, M. 2007. Primitive accumulation from feudalism to neoliberalism. Capitalism Nature Socialism 18:44-61.
76. Ratliff, E. 2003. The green wall of China. Wired 11.04. Available online: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/greenwall.html
77. Sargeson, S. 1999. Reworking China's proletariat. Basingstoke, U.K.: Macmillan.
78. Seldon, M. 1993. The political economy of Chinese Development. New York: M. E. Sharpe.
79. Shao, D. G.; He, X. C.; Huang, X. F.; and Zhang, P. 2005. The optimal allocation research of water resources based on water resources net welfare and the system evolution. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Yellow River Forum Vol. 11:318-25. Zhengzhou: Yellow River Conservancy Press.
80. Shi, G., and Chen, S. 2000. China resettlement policy and practices. Nanjing: National Research Center for Resettlement. Available online: www.chinaresettlement.com/paper/erepolcy.html
81. Sneddon, C. 2007. Nature's materiality and the circuitous paths of accumulation: Dispossession of freshwater fisheries in Cambodia. Antipode 39:167-93.
82. Sodbilig, S. 2005. Reclamation of pastureland in Chahar: Regional and environmental transformation. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, 3 April. Available online: http:/ /www.smhric.org/AAS_4.htm
83. Solinger, D.J. 1999. Contesting citizenship in urban China. Berkeley: University of California Press.
84. Sonobe, T., and Otsuka, K. 2001. Productivity effects of TVE privatisation: The case study of garment and metal casting enterprises in the Great Yangtze River region. Tokyo: Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development.
85. Southern Mongolia Human Rights Information Center. 2005. To protect and promote ethnic Mongolian rights. Available online: http://www.smhric.org/ index.htm
86. Svejnar, J., and Woo, J. 1990. Development patterns in four countries. In China's rural industry: Structure development and reform, ed. W. A. Byrd and Q. Lin, 63-84. New York: Oxford University Press.
87. Swain, M. B. 2003. A comparison of state and private artisan production for tourism in Yunnan. In Tourism in China, ed. A.A. Lew, L. Yu, J. Ap, and G. Zhang, 223-33. Birmingham, N.Y.: The Haworth Hospitality Press.
88. Tai, D. L. 2000. The problems of grassland pasture production in Inner Mongolia [in Chinese]. Pastoral Journal of Inner Mongolia 10:71-77.
89. Togochog, E. 2005. Ecological immigration and human rights in Inner Mongolia. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, 3 April. Available online: http://www.smhric.org/ AAS_2.htm
90. Tong, G. Q., and Zhang, H. X. 2005. The illumination of Australia water right system for the Yellow River. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Yellow River Forum Vol.V:380-85. Zhengzhou: Yellow River Conservancy Press.
91. Tsai, K. S. 2002. Back-alley banking: Private entrepreneurs in China. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
92. Walker, K. L. M. 2006. "Gangster capitalism" and peasant protest in China:The last twenty years. Journal of Peasant Studies 33:1-33.
93. Wang, J.B.; Gao, L.L.; Ma, Z.G.; Hu, X.J.; and Lu, Y.X. 2006. One hero, two cities. Henan Ribao, 11 January.
94. Wang, J. Z., and Wang, F.Y. 2005. Preliminary exploration for sustaining Tarim River in healthy life. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Yellow River Forum Vol. 1:59-66. Zhengzhou: Yellow River Conservancy Press.
95. Wang, M.Y.; Webber, M.; and Zhu, Y. 2002. Managed openness: Opening China's door. In China's transition to a global economy, ed. M. Webber, M.Y.L. Wang, and Y. Zhu, 14-30. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan.
96. Webber, M., and Wang, M. 2005. Markets in the Chinese countryside: The case of "rich Wang's village." Geoforum 36:720-34.
97. Webber, M.; Wang, M.Y.L.; and Zhu, Y., eds. 2002. China's transition to a global economy. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan.
98. Wei, Y.-H. D. 2004. Trajectories of ownership transformation in China: Implications for uneven regional development. Eurasian Geography and Economics 42:90-113.
99. Williams, D. M. 1996. The barbed walls of China: A contemporary grassland drama. Journal of Asian Studies 553:665-91.
100. Williams, D. M. 2002. Beyond Great Walls. Environment, identity and development on the Chinese grasslands of Inner Mongolia. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
101. Woon, Y. F. 2000. Filial or rebellious daughters? Dagongmei in the Pearl River Delta Region, South China, in the 1990s. Asia and Pacific Migration Journal 9:137-69.
102. Wong, J., and Chan, S. 2003. Why China's economy can sustain high performance: An analysis of its sources of growth. Working Paper 6. National University of Singapore, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Asia Programme.
103. World Bank. 2000a. China-Water Conservation Project CNPE56516. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.
104. World Bank. 2000b. Project Appraisal Document Water Conservation Project P056516. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.
105. World Bank. 2002. China country water resources assistance strategy. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.
106. Xinhua News Agency. 2003. Fourth largest desert to see China's first settlement oasis. Beijing: Xinhua News Agency, 23 April.
107. Zhou, Q. R., and Qou, J. C. 1997. The institutional base for TVEs' "credit." In China's industrial reform and efficiency, ed. Q. S. Lin and Y. Du, 437-60. Kunming: Yunnan Renmin Press.
108. Zhou, Y. Z., and Wei, B. C. 2002. Pricing of irrigation water in China. Agadir, Morocco. Paper presented at the International Conference on "Irrigation Water Policies: Micro and Macro Considerations," 15-17 June.