Chinese Agriculture in the 1930s Investigations into John Lossing Buck’s Rediscovered ‘Land Utilization in China’ Microdata

Chinese Agriculture in the 1930s Investigations into John Lossing Buck’s Rediscovered ‘Land Utilization in China’ Microdata / edited by Hao Hu, Funing Zhong, Calum G. Turvey.

This edited volume analyzes land utilization data from farm surveys taken in China between 1929 and 1933. This data, which was the foundation for John Lossing Buck’s seminal work Land Utilization in China (1937), was thought lost to history until rediscovered in 2000. The book presents the first mod...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Hu, Hao (Editor), Zhong, Funing (Editor), Turvey, Calum G. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Agricultural economics.
Economic history.
Asia—Economic conditions.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • 1 China’s Agriculture in the 1930s: An Overview
  • 2 John Lossing Buck and Land Utilization in China
  • 3 Calamities and Conflict Affecting Rural China 1929–1933
  • 4 The Discovery and Restoration of Buck’s Original Data
  • 5 Reliability of John Lossing Buck’s Land Utilization Survey Data: A Preliminary Test of Grain Yields
  • 6 Tenancy Issues in Northwest China During the Republican Era
  • 7 Regional Differences in Surplus Agricultural Labor During China’s Republican Era, Based on Buck’s Rural Survey Data
  • 8 Agricultural Poverty and Inequality in 1930s China: Estimates of Gini and Engel Coefficients from Buck’s Data
  • 9 An Analysis on the Inverse Relationship between Yield and Farm Size in Rural China in the 1930s
  • 10 The Relationship Between Farm Size and Land Productivity in Early Twentieth-Century China
  • 11 Farm Credit Demand and Supply in 1930s China
  • 12 The Change in China’s Cropland Utilization and Productivity Over Nearly a Century in China: A Comparison Study Based on Buck’s Survey
  • 13 A Comparison of Certain Changes in Chinese Agricultural Operations between Buck’s Republican Era and Modern China
  • 14 Concluding Thoughts.

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