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List of contents
List of: Tables and lllustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Walter P. Falcon -- PART ONE OVERVIEW AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- 1. Overview / Peter Calkins, Wen S. Chern, and Francis C. Tuan -- 2. Chinese Rural Development: Historical Parallels and Recent Hypotheses / Peter Calkins -- 3. Economic vs. Noneconomic Factors in Chinese Rural Development / D. Gale /ohnson -- PART TWO INSTITUTIONS -- Introduction to Part Two / Francis C. Tuan -- 4. Technological Choice in Chinese Agriculture / Justin Yifu Lin Discussion: Wen-Fu Hsu -- 5. Institutional Organizations in Taiwan's Agricultural Development / Yu-Kang Mao Discussion: Liu Zhicheng -- PART THREE PRICES, COSTS, AND INCOMES -- Introduction to Part Three / Peter Calkins -- 6. Prices, Income, and Farm Policy in Taiwan / Tso-Kwei Peng Discussion: Guangsen Wang -- 7. Prices, Costs, and Farm Income in Mainland China: Rules of Farmer Behavior in a Uniquely Mixed Economy / An Xi-Ji Discussion: Carson Kung-Hsien Wu -- PART FOUR TRADE AND COMPETITION -- Introduction to Part Four / WenS.Chern -- 8. China's Agricultural Trade and Prospects in Foreign Competition / NiuRuofeng Discussion: Shin-Hsing Yeh -- 9. Taiwan's Agricultural Trade and Prospects in Foreign Competition / Hsi-huang Chen Discussion: Zhu Daohua -- PART FIVE GRAIN AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT -- 10. The Growing Grain Deficit and Its Implications for China's Developmental Strategy / Dwight H. Perkins -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.
Summary
This book addresses numerous issues related to agricultural prices, land-use planning, farm size, the role of trade, agricultural organizations, human capital, and rural poverty. It discusses the great technological achievements on crop research in both Taiwan and the Mainland.
