Investigation of the rural economic policy of 1978 with particular reference to income distribution among the peasants. Taxes, investment, prices, quotas, production and marketing in agriculture. Year-to-year increases of total peasant income 1978-81. A new array of economic problems created by...

Rural markets and peasant marketing did not fare well during the Maoist era, which extended from well before the consolidation of communist power in China to the triumphal return of Deng Xiaoping as the central political figure in 1977. The vicissitudes of Maoist policies in respect of supply...

Patterns of rural unrest in two quite different periods, the 1950s and the 1980s, are explored. By comparing the first with the most recent decade of the PRC, the paper aims at contributing to an understanding of changing interactions between state and peasant in contemporary China. Pivotal role...