Decollectivization and rural poverty in post-mao China: A critique of the conventional wisdom

This dissertation is a study of the consequences of decollectivization (1978-1984) in rural China, a fundamental institutitional change that replaced Maoist collective economy with the Household Responsibility System, for the conditions of Chinese rural poverty. It first examines how decollectivizat...

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Main Author: Peng, Zhaochang
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2013
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3603137