Transforming China''s Economy in the Eighties - Vol. 1: The Rural Sector, Welfare and Employment

List of contents

Preface -- NEP and Beyond: The Transition to ‘Modernization’ in China (1978-85) -- The People's Livelihood and the Incidence of Poverty -- The New Peasant Economy in China -- China's Food Take-Off? -- The Implications of Contract Agriculture for the Employment and Status of Chinese Peasant Women -- Implementation and Resistance: The Single-Child Family Policy -- China's New Inheritance Law: Some Preliminary Observations -- Urban Employment in Post-Maoist China -- Urban Housing Policy after Mao

About the author

Stephan Feuchtwang Senior lecturer in Sociology and Principal of the China Research Unit at The City University, London; co-editor of The Chinese Economic Reforms (London, 1983). Athar Hussain Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Keele; co-author of Marxism and the Agrarian Question (London, 1981) and co-editor of The Chinese Economic Reforms (London, 1983)

Summary

This is the first of two volumes on the transformation of China since 1978. The focus of this volume is on changes in the rural economy, provision for basic needs such as nutrition and housing, the population and the new legal structure.

Product details

• Authors: FEUCHTWANG, Stephen Feuchtwang, Feuchtwang Stephen
• Assisted by: Stephan Feuchtwang (Editor), Athar Hussain (Editor), Thierry Pairault (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367212209
• ISBN: 978-0-367-21220-9
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Ethnic Studies, Asia, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Politics & government, Social and cultural history, Politics and government, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General