"Since its founding, the government of the People's Republic of China has strived to transform rural production, the theme of this volume of History of Contemporary China. Fourteen articles translated from the Chinese journal Contemporary History (Dangdai Zhongguo shi yanjiu) offer both...

A long view -- Growth and crisis in the pre-fossil era -- The big change -- How other regions coped -- Agriculture and the welfare state : emerging problems -- The neoliberal decades -- Looking into the crystal ball -- Where there's a will, there's a way