Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- The Evolution of Population Census Undertakings in China, 1953–2010 / Xiaogang Wu and Guangye He -- Regionalism in China’s Postwar Reconstruction / Cheng Ch’eng-K’un -- China’s Changing Regional Disparities during the Reform Period / Long Gen Ying -- A Review of China’s Economy in 1970 / W. Klatt -- Economic Development Prospects and Problems in China / Alexander Eckstein -- China’s Transitional Economy: Interpreting Its Significance / Andrew G. Walder -- Economic Analysis of the People’s Republic of China / Gregory C. Chow -- Economic Reform and Social Change in China: Past, Present, and Future of the Economic State / Sheying Chen -- Market Transition and Societal Transformation in Reforming State Socialism / Victor Nee and Rebecca Matthews -- China’s Unbalanced Economic Growth / C.W. Kenneth Keng -- Land Redistribution in Communist China / Frank C. Lee -- Communist China’s Agrarian Policy, 1954–56 / S.B. Thomas -- Contracts in China Revisited, with a Focus on Agriculture, 1949–63 / Richard M. Pfeffer -- Foodgrains Output in the People’s Republic of China, 1958–1965 / Subramanian Swamy and Shahid Javed Burki -- Why China Imports Wheat / Feng-Hwa Mah -- The Evolution of Agricultural Policy / Robert F. Ash -- 40 Years On: Provincial Contrasts in China’s Rural Economic Development / Kenneth R. Walker -- The Production Responsibility System in Chinese Agriculture: Some Examples from Guangdong / Graham E. Johnson -- A New Direction for China’s State Farms / Dennis Woodward -- Grey and Black: The Hidden Economy of Rural China / Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger -- Farmers’ Preferences Regarding Ownership and Land Tenure in Post-Mao China: Unexpected Evidence from Eight Counties / James Kai-sing Kung and Shouying Liu -- Emerging Land Markets in Rural and Urban China: Policies and Practices / Samuel P.S. Ho and George C.S. Lin -- Stagnation without Equity: Patterns of Growth and Inequality in China’s Rural Economy / Scott Rozelle -- Research Note: The Changing Grain Marketing System in China / Cheng Yuk-shing and Tsang Shu-ki -- Redefining State, Plan and Market: China’s Reforms in Agricultural Commerce / Terry Sicular -- The Politics of Agricultural Mechanization in the post-Mao Era, 1977–87 / Jae Ho Chung -- China’s Agrarian Reform and the Privatization of Land: A contrarian view / Qian Forrest Zhang and John A. Donaldson -- Industrial Production in Communist China: 1957–1968 / Robert Michael Field -- Small Industry and the Chinese Model of Development / Carl Riskin -- Inheritors of the Boom: Private Enterprise and the Role of Local Government in a Rural South China Township / Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan -- Factory and Manager in an Era of Reform / Andrew G. Walder -- Industrial Relations in China: The New Line / M.D. Fletcher -- New Bosses in the Workers’ State: The Growth of Non-State Sector Employment in China / Lora Sabin -- The Illicit Asset Stripping of Chinese State Firms / X.L. Ding -- Subsistence Crises, Managerial Corruption and Labour Protests in China / Feng Chen -- Guanxi and the Allocation of Urban Jobs in China / Yanjie Bian -- Learning from Ta-ch’ing: China’s Oil Prospects / W. Klatt.

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China’s economic development has become a matter of world-wide interest since the boom that began in the 1980s. Key Papers in Chinese Economic History since 1949 offers a selection of outstanding articles that trace the origins of the modern Chinese economy. Topics covered include agriculture and the rural economy; industrialisation and urbanisation; finance and capital; political economy and international connections.