In the early 1980s, China undertook a massive reform that dismantled its socialist rural collectives and divided the land among millions of small peasant famili

An account of China's transition into a global capitalist economy, as agrarian reform in the 1980s led Chinese peasants to industrial cities and into poverty In

Socialism and capitalism in the Chinese countryside -- Chinese agrarian change in world-historical context -- Agricultural productivity and decollectivization -