This book interrogates the inevitability and practicability of full-scale, land-intensive capitalist agriculture in China, whilst analyzing the labor-intensive industrious revolution as an alternative rural development path. It presents a critical account of the recent rise of agrarian...

The end of slavery, famine and food aid in Tunduru -- Changing configurations of poverty in the colonial southeast and the myth of communalism -- The struggle to trade -- Independence and the rhetoric of feasibility -- Villagisation and the pursuit of market access -- The politics of development...