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...

"Land reforms have been critical to the development of Chinese capitalism over the last several decades, yet land in China remains publicly owned. This book explores the political logic of reforms to land ownership and control, accounting for how land development and real estate have become...