Table of Contents

1. The Conundrum of Chinese Agriculture Jan Douwe van der Ploeg and Ye Jingzhong 2. The Circularity of Town-countryside Relations and Multiple Job-holding Jan Douwe van der Ploeg and Ye Jingzhong 3. Man and the Land: The Social Organization of Farming Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, Ye Jingzhong and Pan Lu 4. Peasant-managed Agricultural Growth Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, Ye Jingzhong, Wu Huifang and Wang Chunyu 5. Entrepreneurial Trajectories? Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, Ye Jingzhong, Zhao Yong and Pan Lu 6. The Rise of Capitalist Modes of Farming Jan Douwe van der Ploeg and Ye Jingzhong 7. Reinventing Peasant Farming Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, Ye Jingzhong and Wu Huifang 8. Rural Women: Glimpses of Empowerment? Xiandang Meng , Sabine de Rooij and Jan Douwe van der Ploeg 9. The Young and the Rural Sabine de Rooij, Wu Huifang and Jan Douwe van der Ploeg 10. Markets Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, Wu Huifang and He Congzhi 11. The Relevance of the Chinese Experience Jan Douwe van der Ploeg 12. Putting the Jigsaw Together: A Return to Paradigmatic Issues Jan Douwe van der Ploeg and Ye Jingzhong

About the Author

Jan Douwe van der Ploeg is Professor of Transition Studies at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and Adjunct Professor of Rural Sociology at the College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University, Beijing. He is the author of the influential book The New Peasantries (Earthscan, 2008). 


Jingzhong Ye is Professor of Development Sociology and Dean of the College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University, Beijing.

Reviews

"This book’s most distinguishing feature lies in pounding home the opposition between an agroindustrial Western paradigm and a peasant-centered Chinese paradigm ... there is a need for accounts of promising agrarian lifeways that are critical and self-reflexive but forcefully open up avenues of action, a need this book helps to address." - John Aloysius Zinda, Cornell University, USA, in Journal of Peasant Studies(2017)