This book interrogates the inevitability and practicability of full-scale, land-intensive capitalist agriculture in China, whilst analyzing the labor-intensive

One of the most pressing issues in contemporary China is the massive rural land takings that have taken place at a scale unprecedented in human history. Expropr

Following the end of World War II in 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spent the next three decades carrying out agrarian reform among nearly one-third of

This first book to consider land reform in both countries show that reform, as the Communists have conducted it, can be justified in China and North Vietnam for

Qiao demonstrates how an impersonal and unbounded market can operate without legal protection or enforcement of property and contract rights.