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Article: The political economy of land reform in China's "newly liberated areas": Evidence from Wuxi County
Title | The political economy of land reform in China's "newly liberated areas": Evidence from Wuxi County |
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Issue Date | 2008 |
Citation | China Quarterly, 2008, n. 195, p. 675-690 How to Cite? |
Abstract | A farm survey conducted in Wuxi county in the 1950s found that the Chinese Communist Party had successfully "preserved the rich peasant economy" in the "newly liberated areas": the landlords were indeed the only social class whose properties had been redistributed, yet without compromising on the magnitude of benefits received by the poor peasants. A higher land inequality in that region, coupled with an inter-village transfer of land, allowed these dual goals to be achieved. Our study further reveals that class status was determined both by the amount of land a household owned and whether it had committed certain "exploitative acts," which explains why some landlords did not own a vast amount of land. Conversely, it was the amount of land owned, not class status, that determined redistributive entitlements, which was why 15 per cent of the poor peasants and half of the middle peasants were not redistributed any land. © 2008 The China Quarterly. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/256977 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.5 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.716 |
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dc.contributor.author | Kung, James Kai Sing | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-24T08:58:30Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-07-24T08:58:30Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | China Quarterly, 2008, n. 195, p. 675-690 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0305-7410 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/256977 | - |
dc.description.abstract | A farm survey conducted in Wuxi county in the 1950s found that the Chinese Communist Party had successfully "preserved the rich peasant economy" in the "newly liberated areas": the landlords were indeed the only social class whose properties had been redistributed, yet without compromising on the magnitude of benefits received by the poor peasants. A higher land inequality in that region, coupled with an inter-village transfer of land, allowed these dual goals to be achieved. Our study further reveals that class status was determined both by the amount of land a household owned and whether it had committed certain "exploitative acts," which explains why some landlords did not own a vast amount of land. Conversely, it was the amount of land owned, not class status, that determined redistributive entitlements, which was why 15 per cent of the poor peasants and half of the middle peasants were not redistributed any land. © 2008 The China Quarterly. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | China Quarterly | - |
dc.title | The political economy of land reform in China's "newly liberated areas": Evidence from Wuxi County | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0305741008000829 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-51849085218 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 195 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 675 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 690 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1468-2648 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000259846800008 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0305-7410 | - |