The Growth of Market Relations in Post-Reform Rural China

A Micro-Analysis of Peasants, Migrants and Peasant Entrepeneurs

By:

Hiroshi Sato

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Hardback

Series:

Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

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This book, based on in-depth field research at the local level, assesses the different factors that are contributing to the transition to a market economy and the growth of networks in rural China. It analyses the different socio-economic actors - peasant households, out-migrants, family businesses and peasant entrepreneurs, uses the key concept of markets as a nexus of social networks, and identifies three different kinds of 'social capital' - human capital, that is skills and abilities, political capital/status, and network capital, that is the quality and quantity of social networks which socio-economic actors can mobilize. The book demonstrates the importance of socio-political networks, that is the party-state system, especially when peasants move from agricultural production to become peasant entrepreneurs. The book also points out significant regional differences.

Author Biography:

Hiroshi Sato is Professor of Chinese Economy and Society at the Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. His research interests are economic and social behaviour of household, labour market formation, distribution of household incomde, and poverty alleviation.

Release date NZ

January 9th, 2003

Author

Hiroshi Sato

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

256

Series

Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

Dimensions

156x234x19

ISBN-13

9780700717262

Product ID

5246263

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