Overview
- Presents the first modern analysis of John Lossing Buck’s original and newly digitzed farm survey data from the Republic of China, 1929-1933
- Builds upon John Lossing Buck’s seminal work in Land Utilization in China
- Reexamines key features of China’s agricultural economy in the Republican Era
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Keywords
- agricultural economics
- john lossing buck
- chinese economics
- asian economics
- economic history
- land utilization
- calum turvey
- hao hu
- republic of china
- farm survey
- Land Utilization in China (1937)
- nutritional poverty
- tenancy issues
- land productivity
- surplus labor
- workers’ incomes
- credit supply
- analytical methods
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hao Hu is Professor in the College of Economics and Management at Nanjing Agricultural University, China. He was the principal investigator on the project “Electronic and Database Construction of Buck’s Data” from 2012 to 2015. He specializes in animal husbandry economics and agricultural economic history,
Funing Zhong is a Distinguished Professor and Vice Chairman of Academic Committee of Nanjing Agricultural University. His research interests cover agricultural production and trade, as well as rural development. The restoroation work of Buck' data was started under his lead as the Dean of the College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chinese Agriculture in the 1930s
Book Subtitle: Investigations into John Lossing Buck’s Rediscovered ‘Land Utilization in China’ Microdata
Editors: Hao Hu, Funing Zhong, Calum G. Turvey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12688-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12687-2Published: 31 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12690-2Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12688-9Published: 21 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 311
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations
Topics: Agricultural Economics, Economic History, Asian Economics