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Contemporary Chinese Rural Reform

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Authors:
  1. Xiang Wu

    1. Rural Development Research Center of the State Council, Beijing, China

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  • An eyewitness account of contemporary China’s twenty years rural reform
  • First-hand materials from the top leadership of the central government to the front line of the reform
  • Key to understanding the skyrocketing economy of China in the 1980s and 1990s

Part of the book series: China Academic Library (CHINALIBR)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
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  2. How Anhui Became a Breakthrough Point in Rural Reform

    • Xiang Wu
    Pages 1-57

  3. Nationwide Introduction of the Household Responsibility Contract System (1979–1984)

    • Xiang Wu
    Pages 59-122

  4. Exploration and Development Among Difficulties and Setbacks (1985–1991)

    • Xiang Wu
    Pages 123-190

  5. A New Stage of Reform, Opening Up, and Development (1992–1998)

    • Xiang Wu
    Pages 191-233

  6. Conclusion: Facing Challenges in the New Century

    • Xiang Wu
    Pages 235-239

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 241-245
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About this book

This book offers an eyewitness account of China’s twenty years of rural reform. It records the successive changes in different types of China’s rural economic systems, from rural cooperatives to the people’s communes to the household responsibility system. It demonstrates that, as the starting point of rural reform, the household contract management played an unexpected role in promoting the acceleration of China’s modernization process. Further, the book presents a systematic explanation for the cause and results of the reforms without which it would be impossible to fully comprehend the rise of China over the last three decades.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Rural Development Research Center of the State Council, Beijing, China

    Xiang Wu

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Contemporary Chinese Rural Reform

  • Authors: Xiang Wu

  • Series Title: China Academic Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-898-4

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing Co., Ltd and Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-896-0Published: 08 January 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5724-4Published: 11 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-898-4Published: 30 December 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2195-1853

  • Series E-ISSN: 2195-1861

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXII, 245

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: International Political Economy

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