Tilling sand: Contradictions of "Social Economy" in a Chinese movement for alternative rural development

Dialectical Anthropology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-82

  Hale, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative development; Capitalism; China; Peasant cooperatives; Social economy; Social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877620092     PISSN: 03044092     EISSN: 15730786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10624-013-9294-1     Document Type: Article

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