After determining the extent to which the tendency toward self-sufficiency in grain at the provincial level was replicated at the county level during the Maoist era in Fujian province, the author examines the impact of economic reform and readjustment upon previous patterns of grain production...

Recent studies of China's economic system have focused upon the nature and progress of reforms. As a by-product of these studies, however, many Chinese writers seem to have settled upon a common characterization of the pre-reform system. The article takes a new look at the pre-reform system,...