How the Farmers Changed China: Power of the People

by Kate Xiao Zhou

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In this original and provocative book, Kate Zhou argues that Chinese farmers--who comprise one-fifth of the world's population--have been the driving force behind their country's phenomenal economic growth and social change over the past fifteen years. Guided by their own interests rather than by directives from Beijing, farmers have restored family autonomy in farming, created new markets, established rural industries that now generate over half...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0813326818

ISBN13:9780813326818

Release Date:April 1996

Publisher:Routledge

Length:304 Pages

Weight:0.40 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"

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