The Land Question in China: Agrarian Capitalism, Industrious Revolution, and East Asian Development

This book interrogates the inevitability and practicability of full-scale, land-intensive capitalist agriculture in China, whilst analyzing the labor-intensive industrious revolution as an alternative rural development path. It presents a critical account of the recent rise of agrarian capitalism as a force that would undermine hundreds of millions of people's livelihoods in the populous country.

The Land Question in China traces the roots of the industrious revolution in China back to the e...