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The Theory of Peasant Economy and Involution and De-involution 农民经济理论与内卷与去内卷

Rural China Pub Date : 2020-09-21 DOI: 10.1163/22136746-01702001

Philip C. C. Huang

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Volume Contents 17, 2020 卷目17,2020

Rural China Pub Date : 2020-09-21 DOI: 10.1163/22136746-01702007

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Part-Peasant, Part-Trader: A Study of the Rural Poor in Republican Shanxi 半农半商：民国时期山西农村贫困人口研究

Rural China Pub Date : 2020-09-21 DOI: 10.1163/22136746-01702003

Aiming Zhang

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Local Fiscal Autonomy in China: Historical Evolution and Hierarchical Differences, 1990–2014 中国地方财政自治:历史演进与层级差异(1990-2014

Rural China Pub Date : 2020-09-21 DOI: 10.1163/22136746-01702005

Changquan Jiao, Chenxi Xu

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Economic Development in the Name of Protecting the Environment in Rural China: The Case of the Swan Islet National Nature Reserves 以保护环境为名发展农村经济——以天鹅岛国家级自然保护区为例

Rural China Pub Date : 2020-05-12 DOI: 10.1163/22136746-01701007

Jiayan Zhang

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The Evolution and Dynamics of Managerial Economic Activities of Peasant Families: Ding County since the Republican Era 农民家庭经营经济活动的演变与动态——以民国以来的定县为例

Rural China Pub Date : 2020-05-12 DOI: 10.1163/22136746-01701002

Q. Zheng

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Collective Autonomy and the Politicization of the Land: The Practices of the Land System under Rural Collective Ownership 集体自治与土地政治化:农村集体所有制下土地制度的实践

Rural China Pub Date : 2020-05-12 DOI: 10.1163/22136746-01701006

Peng Du

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Land Transaction and Its Impact on Society and Economy in Imperial China: An Exchange with “Dian and the System of Land-Rights Transaction under the Qing” by Long Denggao et al. 土地交易及其对中国社会经济的影响——与龙登高等《滇与清代土地权交易制度》的比较。

Rural China Pub Date : 2020-05-12 DOI: 10.1163/22136746-01701001

G. Lin