Author Description

Introduction: Politics And Markets In Rural China / Björn Alpermann -- Factor Markets -- Agrarian Change In China: The Commodification Of Collective Land / Rene Trappel -- The Constricted Evolution Of China's Rural Labor Market / Gunter Schucher -- Greasing The Wheels Of Development: Rural Credit In China / Lynette H. Ong -- Franchising The State: Farmers, Agricultural Technicians And The Marketization Of Agricultural Services / Graeme Smith -- Product Markets -- Grain Market And Policy In China / Li Xiande, Wang Shihai And Jla Yan -- The Reorganization Of The Sugar Industry In China In The Context Of Globalization: Insights From Guangxi Province / Louis Augustin-jean -- China's Cotton Sector: The Politics Of A Managed Market / Bjorn Alpermann -- The Role Of The State In Modernizing China's Fine Wool Marketing Sector / Scott Waldron, Colin Brown, And John Longworth -- Rural Policies -- Paving The Road To A Socialist New Countryside: China's Rural Tax And Fee Reform / Christian Gobel -- Building A New Socialist Countryside: Model Villages In Hubei / Stig Thogersen -- The Nature Of Cooperatives In China: The Implementation And Paradoxes Of The Law On Cooperatives In Shanxi Province / Louis Augustin-jean And Xue Ruining -- Surveys And Learning About Village Elections And Rural China: An Analysis Of A 2005 National Village Election Survey / John James Kennedy And Yaojiang Shi -- The End Of Urban-rural Differentiation In China: Hukou And Resettlement In Chengdu's Urban -- Rural Integration / Jesper W. Zeuthen And Michael B. Griffiths. Edited By Björn Alpermann. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.