The Re-Emergence of the Chinese Peasantry

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Ashwani Saith is Emeritus Dean at the School of Liberal Studies, BML Munjal University, India. He is Emeritus Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies, ISS (of Erasmus University Rotterdam, EUR) and has held research and teaching positions at the Delhi School of Economics; Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford; and the London School of Economics. His research interests include critical and empirical interrogations of official poverty measurement methodologies, agrarian change and rural development, Asian economic development and history of economic thought.

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1. Collectivisation and Decollectivisation in Guanzhong, Central Shaanxi, 1934-1984 2. The People's Commune, Responsibility Systems and Rural Development in China, 1965-1984 3. Towards an Appraisal of the Impact of Rural Reform in China, 1978-1985 4. Some Implications of the Rural Economic Reforms for the Chinese Peasant Household 5. The Disintegration and Reconstruction of the Rural Science and Technology System: Evaluation and Implications 6. Changes in the System of Basic Social Security in the Countryside since 1979 7. China's New Population Policies: Rationale and Some Implications 8. Riding the Tiger: Grass-Roots Rural Politics in the Wake of the Chinese Economic Reforms