From Peasants to Farmers: Peasant Differentiation, Labor Regimes, and Land-Rights Institutions in China’s Agrarian Transition
By Forrest Q. Zhang, John A. Donaldson. 2010
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The development of factor markets has opened Chinese agriculture for the penetration of capitalism. This new round of rural transformation—China’s agrarian transition— raises the agrarian question in the Chinese context. This study investigates how capitalist forms and relations of production transform agricultural production and the peasantry class in rural China. The authors identify six forms of nonpeasant agricultural production, compare the labor regimes and direct producers’ socioeconomic statuses across these forms, and evaluate the role of China’s land-rights institution in shaping these forms. The empirical investigation presents three main findings: (1) Peasant differentiation : capitalist forms of agricultural production differentiate peasants into a variety of new class positions. (2) Market-based stratification: producers in capitalist agriculture are primarily stratified by their positions in labor and land markets; their socioeconomic statuses are linked with their varying degrees of proletarianization. (3) Institutional mediation: rural China’s dual-track land system plays a crucial role in shaping the diverse and unique forms of capitalist production.
Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Political Science and International Relations, Soil Science
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- Land Transfer and the Pursuit of Agricultural Modernization in China (2015, background): “© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd contend that a third phase can be delineated; that is, land transfer and modern agriculture, alternatively termed ‘the rise of agrarian capitalism’ (Jiang and An 2003; Zhang and Donaldson 2008, 2010).”