Bringing Agriculture Back In: The Central Place of Agrarian Change in Rural China Studies

Journal of Agrarian Change

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 299-313

  Zhang, Qian Forrest ^a   Oya, Carlos ^b   Ye, Jingzhong ^c  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agrarian change; Agricultural modernization; China; Reform; Rural development

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN CHANGE; AGRARIAN REFORM; AGRICULTURE; RURAL AREA; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL ECONOMY;

CHINA;

EID: 84930169528     PISSN: 14710358     EISSN: 14710366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joac.12115     Document Type: Article

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