Critical appraisal of the agricultural reform envisaged in Document No.1, 1984 of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Types and variants, 1980-83, of the agricultural production responsibility system. The greatly increased rural labour reserves, released by the much more...

Agrarian transition, process tracing, and institutions -- Collective land, the household responsibility system and the Chinese agrarian transition -- Smallholder frustration, peasant differentiation and the devaluation of land -- The role of township and county administrations in the Chinese...