Focusing on above-quota and negotiated purchase, the authors analyse in detail the mechanisms of different modes of grain acquisition by the Chinese government during the pre-reform and reform periods. They also discuss the problem of social instability in the countryside of China, slackened...

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...